Adam Rudolph (born September 12, 1955) is a

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

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and

percussionist A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

performing in the

post-bop Post-bop is a genre of small-combo jazz that evolved in the early to mid 1960s in the United States. Pioneers of the genre, such as Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane and Jackie McLean, crafted syntheses ...

and world fusion media. In 1988, Rudolph met jazz musician

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, and the two would go on to collaborate and perform together for the next 25 years. Rudolph has released several albums as leader and has also recorded with musicians Sam Rivers,

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Bill Laswell William Otis Laswell (born February 12, 1955) is an American bass guitarist, record producer, and record label owner. He has been involved in thousands of recordings with many collaborators from all over the world. His music draws from funk, w ...

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Foday Musa Suso Foday Musa Suso (born 9 December 1953, in Sarre Hamadi, Wuli District, in the Upper River Division of The Gambia) is a Gambian musician and composer. He is a member of the Mandinka ethnic group, and is a griot. Griots are the oral historians ...

, and Shadowfax.

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

* ''Live in Seattle'' (YAL, 1999) With Mandingo Griot Society * ''Mandingo Griot Society'' (Flying Fish, 1978) * ''Mighty Rhythm'' (Flying Fish, 1981) With

Bennie Maupin Bennie Maupin (born August 29, 1940) is an American jazz multireedist who performs on various saxophones, flute, and bass clarinet. Maupin was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States. He is known for his participation in Herbie Hancock's Mwandi ...

* '' Symphonic Tone Poem for Brother Yusef'' (Strut, 2022) With Universal Quartet * ''The Universal Quartet'' (Blackout Music, 2009) * ''Light'' (ILK Music, 2013)

As sideman

With

Jon Hassell Jon Hassell (March 22, 1937 – June 26, 2021) was an American trumpet player and composer. He was best known for developing the concept of "Fourth World" music, which describes a "unified primitive/futurist sound" combining elements of various w ...

* ''City: Works of Fiction'' (Opal, 1990) * ''

Dressing for Pleasure ''Dressing for Pleasure'' is an album by Jon Hassell that was released by Warner Bros. on November 14, 1994. Track listing "Destination: Bakiff" contains a sample of "Bakiff" performed by Duke Ellington (cf. ''The Blanton–Webster Band''). P ...

'' (Warner Bros., 1994) * ''

Seeing Through Sound ''Seeing Through Sound'' is the eighteenth and final studio album by Jon Hassell. It was released on his own record label, Ndeya, on July 24, 2020 and is a companion piece to his previous release ''Listening to Pictures''. It is considered the sec ...

'' (Ndeya, 2020) With

* ''Kauai: The Arch of Heaven'' (Metastation, 2014) * ''Against Empire'' (M.O.D. Reloaded, 2020)

Dave Liebman David Liebman (born September 4, 1946) is an American saxophonist, flautist and jazz educator. He is known for his innovative lines and use of atonality. He was a frequent collaborator with pianist Richie Beirach. In June 2010, he received a N ...

* ''The Unknowable'' (RareNoise, 2018) * ''Chi'' (RareNoise, 2019) With

* ''Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp'' (YAL, 1992) * ''The African-American Epic Suite for Quintet and Orchestra'' (ACT, 1994) – recorded in 1993 * ''The World at Peace'' (Meta, 1997) CD– recorded in 1995 * ''Beyond the Sky'' (YAL/Meta, 2000) * ''A G.I.F.T.'' (YAL, 2000) * ''Live at Luckman Theater'' (YAL, 2001) * ''Towards the Unknown'' (Meta, 2010) – recorded in 2009 * ''Voice Prints'' (Meta, 2013) – recorded in 2008 With Shadowfax * '' Shadowdance'' (Windham Hill, 1983) * ''

The Dreams of Children ''The Dreams of Children'' is the fourth studio album by new-age group Shadowfax, the third for Windham Hill Records. Track listing # "Another Country" ( Chuck Greenberg) – 4:20 # "Snowline" (Greenberg) – 4:30 # "The Big Song" ( David C. Le ...

'' (Windham Hill, 1984) * '' Too Far to Whisper'' (Windham Hill, 1986) With

* ''

Compassion Compassion motivates people to go out of their way to relieve the physical, mental or emotional pains of others and themselves. Compassion is often regarded as being sensitive to the emotional aspects of the suffering of others. When based on n ...

'' (Meta, 2006) – recorded in 2002 * '' Najwa'' (TUM TUM, 2017) – recorded in 2014 With others * Fred Anderson, '' The Missing Link'' (Nessa, 1984) – recorded in 1979 *

Bob Belden James Robert Belden (October 31, 1956 – May 20, 2015) was an American saxophonist, arranger, composer, bandleader, and producer. As a composer he may be best known for his Grammy Award winning orchestral jazz recording, ''Black Dahlia'' (2001) ...

, ''Puccini's Turandot'' (Blue Note, 1993) *

Joseph Bowie Joseph Bowie (born October 17, 1953) is an American jazz trombonist and vocalist. The brother of trumpeter Lester Bowie, Joseph is known for leading the jazz-punk group Defunkt and for membership in the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble. Career Bowi ...

, ''Good Medicine'' (Defunkt Music, 2013) – recorded in 2011 *

Henry Brant Henry Dreyfuss Brant (September 15, 1913 – April 26, 2008) was a Canadian-born American composer. An expert orchestrator with a flair for experimentation, many of Brant's works featured spatialization techniques. Biography Brant was born ...

, ''The Henry Brant Collection Vol. 2'' (Innova, 2004) *

Norman Connors Norman Connors (born March 1, 1947) is an American jazz drummer, composer, arranger, and producer who has led a number of influential jazz and R&B groups. He also achieved several big R&B hits of the day, especially with love ballads. He is pos ...

, ''Passion'' (Capitol, 1988) *

Hamid Drake Hamid Drake (born August 3, 1955) is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. By the close of the 1990s, Hamid Drake was widely regarded as one of the best percussionists in jazz and improvised music. Incorporating Afro-Cuban, Indian, and Afr ...

, ''Karuna'' (Meta, 2018) *

Hassan Hakmoun Hassan Hakmoun ( ar, حسن حكمون) (born 16 September 1963) is a Moroccan musician who specializes in the Gnawa style. Early life Hakmoun was born to a family of musicians

, ''Gift of the Gnawa'' (Flying Fish, 1991) *

, '' Jazz Africa'' (NEC Avenue, 1987) *

Hue and Cry In common law, a hue and cry is a process by which bystanders are summoned to assist in the apprehension of a criminal who has been witnessed in the act of committing a crime. History By the Statute of Winchester of 1285, 13 Edw. I statute 2. c ...

, '' Remote'' (Circa, 1988) * Sam Rivers, ''Vista'' (Meta, 2004) *

Ned Rothenberg Ned Rothenberg (born September 15, 1956) is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer. He specializes in woodwind instruments, including the alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, and shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). He is known ...

, ''Overlays'' (Moers Music, 1991) *

, ''

Spirits Spirit or spirits may refer to: Liquor and other volatile liquids * Spirits, a.k.a. liquor, distilled alcoholic drinks * Spirit or tincture, an extract of plant or animal material dissolved in ethanol * Volatile (especially flammable) liquids, ...

'' (Meta, 2000) * Claudia Schmidt, ''Claudia Schmidt'' (Flying Fish, 1979) * Paul Shapiro, ''Shofarot Verses'' (Tzadik, 2014) – recorded in 2013 *

Avery Sharpe Avery Sharpe (born August 23, 1954) is an American jazz double-bassist, electric bassist, composer, educator and founder of the artist-owned record label, JKNM Records. Sharpe has a distinguished percussive and rhythmic approach on double bass. ...

, ''Extended Family II Thoughts of My Ancestors'' (JKNM, 1995) – recorded in 1994 * Antonio Pinho Vargas, ''Selos E Borboletas'' (EMI, 1991)

References

External links

Adam Rudolph at Meta Records

Radio interview with Adam Rudolph
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