The sophomore record from Portuguese free jazz saxophonist Rodrigo Amado’s international quartet The Bridge — with German pianist Alexander Von Schlippenbach, Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, and American drummer Gerry Hemingway — arrives with Further Beyond, a powerful statement of collective freedom and risk-taking. Across three freely improvised tracks, the quartet demonstrates a shared instinct for adventure and a deep trust in spontaneous creation.
The opening piece, “A Change Is Gonna Come”, begins on a fluttering rhythmic pulse that soon opens into a Coltrane-inspired spiritual voyage. Von Schlippenbach’s fractured yet dance-like piano fluxes collide with Amado’s searing saxophone cries, while Hemingway and…