Adam Rudolph
For the past four decades composer, improviser and percussionist Adam Rudolph has performed extensively in concert throughout North & South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Rudolph has been hailed as a pioneer in world music by the NY Times and a master percussionist by Musician magazine. He has released over 25 recordings under his own name, featuring his compositions and percussion work. Rudolph composes for his ensembles Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures, Hu: Vibrational percussion group, and Go: Organic Orchestra, an 18 to 54 piece group for which he has developed an original music notation and conducting system. He has taught and conducted hundreds of musicians worldwide in the Go: Organic Orchestra concept. In 1995 Rudolph premiered his opera The Dreamer, based on the text of Friedreich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy.
Rudolph has performed with Don Cherry, Jon Hassell, Sam Rivers, Pharaoh Sanders, 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.
Born in 1955, 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.
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- Imaginary Archipelago by Mark Sullivan
- Ragmala: A Garland of Ragas by Angelo Leonardi
- Imaginary Archipelago by Mark Corroto
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- Ragmala: A Garland Of Ragas by Mark Sullivan
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- Ragmala: A Garland Of Ragas by Dan McClenaghan
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Double Concerto proved a masterful blending of jazz styling and instrumental prowess. - Variety
A Percussion wizard - Down Beat
An intriguing, and, to these ears, utterly unique aural experience. - Option Magazine
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Okomibo
From: Imaginary ArchipelagoBy Adam Rudolph