Rodrigo Amado - Searching For Adam (2010)

Not Two Records: MW 837-2
http://www.nottwo.com/PelnaPlyta.php?Id=391&W=0
http://www.rodrigoamado.com/SearchingReviews.html

* Rodrigo Amado: tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
* Taylor Ho Bynum: cornet, flugelhorn
* John Hébert: double bass
* Gerald Cleaver: drums

http://www.rodrigoamado.com/
http://www.taylorhobynum.com/
http://www.johnhebert.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Cleaver_%28musician%29

Recorded by Joaquim Monte at Namouche Studios, Lisbon, September 20th, 2008.

Reviews
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By Grego Applegate Edwards

Rodrigo Amado needs to be heard by all those into the free thing. He's poised,
filled with good improv ideas, and his new album, Searching for Adam (Not Two
837-2) shows it all off in a very good light. The band is an impressive lineup
of New York's finest--Taylor Ho Bynam on cornet & flugelhorn, John Hebert,
bass, and Gerald Cleaver on drums. The rhythm team has bold fire and dynamic
energy to spare; Bynum is a stick of dynamite. He crackles, sizzles and sears
his way through the set, truly on fire.

And Rodrigo? First off I love his old-school tenor sound. He channels Coleman
Hawkins and Ben Webster and he channels early Archie Shepp's channeling of
same. But the notes and phrases are Rodrigo's and they work together
potently. On baritone the sound of Serge Chaloff comes to mind--gutsy or
expressively tender from moment to moment. RODRIGO's notes, again, not a string
of bop cliches. The BIG sax sound is not something many jazz departments out
there seem to be teaching, so Rodrigo's sound is all the more rare these days,
but all the more welcome. Sound is not something you can easily teach I guess,
nor is the logic of a way of phrasing, sound and note-wise. So Rodrigo is
doubly valuable in that he excels at both aspects.

The band has a clear direction and they go there. It's simply one of the best
free ensemble disks so far this year. OK, the year is rather new, I'll grant,
but I suspect I'll be saying the same thing come December.

Those who don't know Rodrigo Amado's music are missing out. This one is a great
place to begin. Track it down and get down with the tracks. You'll be happy you
did, I think.

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By Stef
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2010/08/rodrigo-amado-searching-for-adam-not.html

By Troy Collins
http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD32/PoD32MoreMoments2.html

By Mark Corroto
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/searching-for-adam-rodrigo-amado-not-two-records-review-by-mark-corroto.php

Par Guillaume Belhomme

Por Sergio Piccirilli (es)
http://elintruso.com/2010/12/02/rodrigo-amado-searching-for-adam/