Rodrigo Amado, Kent Kessler, Paal Nilssen-Love - The Abstract Tr

Rodrigo Amado / Kent Kessler / Paal Nilssen-Love
The Abstract Truth
2009 - European Echoes: 003
http://www.rodrigoamado.com/AbstractReviews.html

* Rodrigo Amado: tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
* Kent Kessler: double bass
* Paal Nilssen-Love: drums

http://www.rodrigoamado.com/
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kent-kessler-mn0000083338
http://www.paalnilssen-love.com/

Recorded by Nelson Carvalho at Estúdios Valentim De Carvalho on July 14, 2008.

Reviews
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By François Couture
http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-abstract-truth-mw0000825446

The Abstract Truth is this trio's follow-up to Teatro released in 2006. It came
out on Portuguese saxman Rodrigo Amado's own European Echoes imprint. It is a
studio session recorded in July 2008, with everyone clearly in top
shape. Amado's well-rounded sound on the tenor sax is a joy to follow through
sinuous lines ("The Kiss" is the most tender free jazz can get without sounding
schmaltzy) and tortuous runs. Less impressive is his baritone playing, a little
grating and hazardous. The rhythm section is, of course, one of the best
adventurous jazz has to offer in the 2000s -- Kessler (bass) and Nilssen-Love
(drums) complement each other at a level where it almost doesn't matter who
they are playing with. The Abstract Truth consists of eight pieces in the five-
to ten-minute range. Moods vary from tenderness to fierceness and, oddly, both
the longest track ("The Kiss") and the shortest track ("Clouds and Shadows")
are highlights. However, there is not a single weak track on this disc. How
much material was recorded that day is not known, but judging from what is
released here, the trio is constantly on, alight, and into it, even in the more
experimental moments like the dirge-like middle section of the concluding
"Enigma of the Arrival."

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By Stef
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2009/07/rodrigo-amado-abstract-truth-european.html

By Massimo Ricci

By Stuart Broomer
http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD24/PoD24MoreMoments2.html

By Mark Corroto
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-abstract-truth-rodrigo-amado-european-echoes-review-by-mark-corroto.php

Par Guillaume Belhomme (fr)

Por Pachi Tapiz (es)
http://www.tomajazz.com/web/?p=3010

Por Sergio Piccirilli (es)
http://elintruso.com/2010/05/31/rodrigo-amado-por-dos/