Winner of the Album of the Year title for 2015 (This Is Our Language, in quartet with Joe McPhee, Kent Kessler and Chris Corsano) by a poll of the most prestigious free jazz and improvised music portal Free Jazz Collective, and voted as the Best Tenor Saxophonist on Argentinian El Intruso International Critics Poll, as stated by a poll of 50 critics from all over the globe, the Portugal saxophonist Rodrigo Amado (1964) is one of the most impressive improvisers on the current European jazz scene.

He took direct part in starting the label Clean Feed, today the leading presenter of avant-garde jazz, with At Seixal, by the Portuguese/American quintet The Implicate Order being their first release. He recorded 17 albums as the leader and the co-leader (Lisbon Improvisation Players, Wire Quartet, Motion Trio…), and a couple of dozen more as a guest or a sideman (Black Bombaim, Luis Lopes, Rocky Marsiano, Sei Miguel…). Motion Trio is his favourite band in recent years, occasionally incorporating notable international improvisers like Jeb Bishop on saxophone and Peter Evans on trumpet as guests.