The Bridge (Rodrigo Amado with Schlippenbach / Haker Flaten / Hemingway) Beyond The Margins

The band name is a nod to the eponymous album by Sonny Rollins from 1962, but the project refuses to sound nostalgic. Every performance leads to completely new music, with every player bringing influences from their own generation and background.Recorded by Bartosz Szkielkowski at Pardon To Tu, Warsaw, October 3rd, 2022 (except for LP format extra track).In this quartet Amado gathers three of his strongest longtime influences: German pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach,Norwegian double bass player Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and American drummer Gerry Hemingway. For Amado this bandrepresents a deep dive into his own formative roots, something he has been dealing with more and more in these last fewyears. With Schlippenbach, Håker Flaten and Hemingway by his side, Amado has the perfect context to explore theclassic materials he considers to be the basis of his journey as a musician, an impulse that is part him and part history.This is a quartet whose name really represents, aside from a direct homage to Sonny Rollins, a bridge between differentlanguages, backgrounds and generations, all united through improvisation.Rodrigo Amado - tenor saxophoneAlexander Von Schlippenbach - pianoIngebrigt Håker Flaten - bassGerry Hemingway - drums