Adam Rudolph

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Adam Rudolph (2006, with a gimbri )

Adam Rudolph (born September 12, 1955 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American percussionist and composer .

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Adam Rudolph's early mentors were Don Cherry , Fred Anderson, and Maulawi Nururdin . After graduating from Oberlin College with a degree in ethnomusicology , he earned a Masters degree from the California Institute of the Arts . In 1977 he traveled to Ghana , where he played with the griot Foday Musa Suso ; a year later they founded the Mandingo Griot Society with Hamid Drake and Joseph Thomas in Chicago , which fused traditional African music with world jazz . Rudolph also studied north Indian tabla drums with Taranath Rao for 15 years ; he also worked with L. Shankar . After his research in Europe, Asia and Africa he has an instrument set consisting of congas , djembé , bendir , dumbek , tablas, talking drum , kalimba and udu . From 1988 he worked a. a. with Yusef Lateef (with whom he can be heard on fourteen albums) as well as with Herbie Hancock , Jon Hassell , with Pharoah Sanders / Hamid Drake ( Spirits , 2000) and the formation Shadowfax . At the Moers Festival 1990 he performed with Don Cherry and Hassan Hakmoun .

Rudolph presented his debut album in 1992 with his formation Moving Pictures ; In 1995 his first opera The Dreamer premiered. In the early 2000s he worked in Los Angeles with the formation Build on Ark , u. a. Carlos Niño, Dwight Trible and Phil Ranelin . With the band they made two albums, Peace with Every Step (2004) and Dawn (2007). In 2004 he performed with Omar Sosa and Joseph Bowie at the Berlin House of World Cultures as part of the Congo Square Festival. He also worked with Leni Stern ( Africa , Dream Garden ).

Discographic notes

  • 1992 - Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures (Flying Fish)
  • 1994 - Skyway ( Soul Note )
  • 1999 - 12 Arrows (Meta)
  • 1999 - Contemplations (Meta)
  • 2003 - Go: Organic Orchestra Web of Light (Meta)
  • 2008 - Dream Garden ( Justin Time Records )
  • 2011 - Both / And (Meta)
  • 2012 - Adam Rudolph / Ralph Jones : Merely a Traveler on the Cosmic Path (Meta)
  • 2017 - Morphic Resonances
  • 2017 - Moving Pictures: Glare of the Tiger
  • 2018 - Adam Rudolph / Dave Liebman / Tatsuya Nakatani - The Unknowable
  • 2018 - Morphic Resonances (Meta)
  • 2019 - Adam Rudolph / Dave Liebman / Hamid Drake - Chi (RareNoiseRecords)

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personal data
SURNAME Rudolph, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois