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Adam Rudolph
Adam Rudolph and his Moving Pictures perform in 2006.
Adam Rudolph and his Moving Pictures perform in 2006.
Background information
Born (1955-09-12) September 12, 1955 (age 69)
Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois
GenresWorld fusion, African music
OccupationMusician
InstrumentPercussion
LabelsMeta
Adam Rudolph

Adam Rudolph (born September 12, 1955) is a percussionist and composer.

Career

Rudolph has performed with Don Cherry, Jon Hassell, Sam Rivers, Pharaoh Sanders,[1] Bill Laswell, Herbie Hancock,[1] Foday Musa Suso,[1] Massimo Laguardia, L. Shankar, A.A.C.M. co-founders Fred Anderson and Muhal Richard Abrams, Wadada Leo Smith, and Omar Sosa. He has toured extensively and recorded 15 albums with Yusef Lateef including duets and their large ensemble compositional collaborations.

Rudolph grew up in the Hyde Park area of the Southside of Chicago. From an early age he was exposed to the live music performances of the great blues and improvising artists who lived nearby. As a teenager, Rudolph started playing hand drums in local streets and parks and soon apprenticed with elders of African American improvised music. He performed regularly in Chicago with Fred Anderson and in Detroit with the Contemporary Jazz Quintet. In 1973 Rudolph played on his first record date with Maulawi Nururdin and with the CJQ at the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz festival.

In 1977 he lived and studied in Ghana, where he experienced trance ceremonies. In his travels throughout West Africa he saw how music can come from a cosmological grounding beyond music itself and can also be about something beyond music itself. In 1978 he lived in Don Cherry's house in the Swedish countryside. Cherry inspired him to start composing and showed him about Ornette Coleman's concept and the connection of music to nature.

Rudolph is known as one of the early innovators of what is now called "World Music." in 1978 he and Gambian Kora player Jali Foday Musa Suso, along with fellow percussionist Hamid Drake, co-founded The Mandingo Griot Society,[1] one of the first groups to combine African and American music. In 1988, he recorded the first fusion of American and Gnawa music with sintir player and singer Hassan Hakmoun. Rudolph intensely studied North Indian Tabla for over 15 years with Pandit Taranath Rao. He learned hundreds of drum compositions and about how music is a form of Yoga – the unity of mind, body and spirit. In 1988 Rudolph began his association with Yusef Lateef, with whom he has recorded over 15 albums including several of their large ensemble collaborations. Lateef introduced Rudolph to the inspirational practice of Autophysiopsychic Music – "that which comes from one's spiritual, physical and emotional self." Rudolph has performed worldwide with Dr. Lateef. Their performances have ranged from their acclaimed duet concerts to appearances as guest soloists with the Köln, Atlanta and Detroit Symphony Orchestras.

Rudolph continues to also create visual art – painting, drawing, photography ‑ and to write. In 2006, his rhythm repository and methodology book, Pure Rhythm was published by Advance Music, Germany. In 2010 Rudolph's article Music and Mysticism: Rhythm and Form was published in Arcana V, edited by John Zorn. Other essays have been published by Parabola Magazine and Morton Books. Rudolph has been on the faculty of Creative Music Studio (New York and Istanbul), Esalen Institute, California Institute of the Arts and the Danish Jazz Federation Summer Institute. Rudolph has received grants and compositional commissions from the Rockefeller Foundation, Chamber Music America, Meet the Composer, Mary Flagler Cary Trust, the NEA, Arts International, Durfee Foundation, Phaedrus Foundation and American Composers Forum.

Discography

As leader

  • Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures (Flying Fish, 1992)
  • Skyway (Soul Note, 1994)
  • Contemplations (Meta, 1997)
  • 12 Arrows (Meta, 1999)
  • Go: Organic Orchestra: 1 (Meta, 2002)
  • Web of Light (Meta, 2002)
  • Dream Garden (Justin Time, 2008)
  • Yeyi (Meta, 2010)
  • Both/And (Meta, 2011)
  • Merely a Traveler On the Cosmic Path (Meta, 2012)
  • Glare of the Tiger (Meta, 2017)

As co-leader

With Build an Ark

  • Peace with Every Step (Kindred Spirits, 2004)
  • Dawn (Kindred Spirits, 2007)

With Eternal Wind

  • Eternal Wind (Flying Fish, 1984)
  • Terra Incognita (Flying Fish, 1987)
  • Wasalu (Flying Fish, 1988)

With Hu Vibrational

  • Boonghee Music 1 (Eastern Developments, 2002)
  • Beautiful Boonghee Music 2 (Soul Jazz, 2004)
  • Universal Mother Boonghee Music 3 (Soul Jazz, 2006)
  • The Epic Botanical Beat Suite Boonghee Music 4 (Meta, 2015)

With Mandingo Griot Society

  • Mandingo Griot Society (Flying Fish, 1978)
  • Mighty Rhythm (Flying Fish, 1981)

With Universal Quartet

  • The Universal Quartet (Blackout Music, 2009)
  • Light (ILK Music, 2013)

As sideman

With Jon Hassell

  • City: Works of Fiction (Opal, 1990)
  • Dressing for Pleasure (Warner Bros., 1994)
  • Seeing Through Sound (Ndeya, 2020)

With Yusef Lateef

  • Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp (YAL, 1992)
  • The African-American Epic Suite for Quintet and Orchestra (ACT, 1994)
  • The World at Peace (Meta, 1997)
  • Live in Seattle (YAL, 1999)
  • A Gift (YAL, 2000)
  • Beyond the Sky (Meta, 2000)
  • Live at Luckman Theater (YAL, 2001)
  • Towards the Unknown (Meta, 2010)
  • Voice Prints (Meta, 2013)

With Shadowfax

  • Shadowdance (Windham Hill, 1983)
  • The Dreams of Children (Windham Hill, 1984)
  • Too Far to Whisper (Windham Hill, 1986)

With others

References

  • Carr, Ian; Digby Fairweather; Brian Priestley (2004). The Rough Guide to Jazz, 3rd Edition. London: Rough Guides. ISBN 1-84353-256-5.
  1. ^ a b c d Guthartz, Jason (July 7, 2013). "Hamid Drake Discography". Retrieved September 25, 2017.
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