Adam Rudolph


Adam Rudolph is a jazz composer and percussionist performing in the post-bop and world fusion media.
Rudolph grew up in the South Side of Chicago among jazz and blues musicians. In 1988 he met jazz musician Yusef Lateef, and the two would go on to collaborate and perform together for the next 25 years. In 1992 Rudolph helped found the band Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures, “a malleable group of improvisers“, as Jazz Times described it. He has been the artistic director of and composer for Hu: Vibrational with Hamid Drake, Vashti International Percussion Ensemble and Go: Organic Orchestra. He has performed as half of the Wildflowers Duo with Butoh dance innovator Oguri.
Rudolph has released several albums as leader and has also recorded with musicians Sam Rivers, Omar Sosa, Wadada Leo Smith, Pharoah Sanders, Bill Laswell, Herbie Hancock, Foday Musa Suso, and Shadowfax.

Discography

As leader

  • Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures
  • Skyway
  • Contemplations
  • 12 Arrows
  • Go: Organic Orchestra: 1
  • Web of Light
  • Dream Garden
  • Yeyi
  • Both/And
  • Merely a Traveler On the Cosmic Path
  • Glare of the Tiger
  • Focus and Field
  • ''Autumn Moon Meditation''

    As co-leader

With Build an Ark
With Eternal Wind
  • Eternal Wind
  • Terra Incognita
  • Wasalu
With Hu Vibrational
With Yusef Lateef
  • Live in Seattle
With Mandingo Griot Society
  • Mandingo Griot Society
  • Mighty Rhythm
With Bennie Maupin
With Universal Quartet
With Jon Hassell
  • City: Works of Fiction
  • Dressing for Pleasure
  • Seeing Through Sound
With Bill Laswell
  • Kauai: The Arch of Heaven
  • Against Empire
Dave Liebman
  • The Unknowable
  • Chi
With Yusef Lateef
  • Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp
  • The African-American Epic Suite for Quintet and Orchestra – rec. 1993
  • The World at Peace – rec. 1995
  • Beyond the Sky
  • A G.I.F.T.
  • Live at Luckman Theater
  • Towards the Unknown – rec. 2009
  • Voice Prints – rec. 2008
With Shadowfax
With Wadada Leo Smith
  • Compassion – rec. 2002
  • Najwa – rec. 2014
With others