Adam Rudolph

Adam Rudolph (born September 12, 1955) is a jazz composer and percussionist performing in the post-bop and world fusion media.^[1]

Adam Rudolph
Adam Rudolph and his Moving Pictures perform in 2006.
Background information
Born	(1955-09-12) September 12, 1955 (age 69) Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois
Genres	World fusion, African music
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Percussion
Labels	Meta

Adam Rudolph

Rudolph grew up in the South Side of Chicago among jazz and blues musicians.^[2] In 1988 he met jazz musician Yusef Lateef, and the two would go on to collaborate and perform together for the next 25 years.^[3][4] In 1992 Rudolph helped found the band Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures, “a malleable group of improvisers“, as Jazz Times described it.^[5] 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.^[6]

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.^[7]

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)
• Focus and Field (Meta, 2020)
• Autumn Moon Meditation (Meta, 2024)

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)
• Timeless Boonghee Music 5 (Meta, 2023)

With Yusef Lateef

• Live in Seattle (YAL, 1999)

With Mandingo Griot Society

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

With Bennie Maupin

• 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 City: Works of Fiction (Opal, 1990) Dressing for Pleasure (Warner Bros., 1994) Seeing Through Sound (Ndeya, 2020) With Bill Laswell Kauai: The Arch of Heaven (Metastation, 2014) Against Empire (M.O.D. Reloaded, 2020) Dave Liebman The Unknowable (RareNoise, 2018) Chi (RareNoise, 2019) With Yusef Lateef Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp (YAL, 1992) The African-American Epic Suite for Quintet and Orchestra (ACT, 1994) – rec. 1993 The World at Peace (Meta, 1997)[2CD] – rec. 1995 Beyond the Sky (YAL/Meta, 2000) A G.I.F.T. (A Goodness Inwardness Forgiving Tolerance) (YAL, 2000) Live at Luckman Theater (YAL, 2001) Towards the Unknown (Meta, 2010) – rec. 2009 Voice Prints (Meta, 2013) – rec. 2008 With Shadowfax Shadowdance (Windham Hill, 1983) The Dreams of Children (Windham Hill, 1984) Too Far to Whisper (Windham Hill, 1986) With Wadada Leo Smith Compassion (Meta, 2006) – rec. 2002 Najwa (TUM TUM, 2017) – rec. 2014

With others Fred Anderson, The Missing Link (Nessa, 1984) – rec. 1979 Bob Belden, Puccini's Turandot (Blue Note, 1993) Joseph Bowie, Good Medicine (Defunkt Music, 2013) – rec. 2011 Henry Brant, The Henry Brant Collection Vol. 2 (Innova, 2004) Norman Connors, Passion (Capitol, 1988) Hamid Drake, Karuna (Meta, 2018) Hassan Hakmoun, Gift of the Gnawa (Flying Fish, 1991) Herbie Hancock, Jazz Africa (NEC Avenue, 1987) Hue and Cry, Remote (Circa, 1988) Sam Rivers, Vista (Meta, 2004) Ned Rothenberg, Overlays (Moers Music, 1991) Pharoah Sanders, Spirits (Meta, 2000) Claudia Schmidt, Claudia Schmidt (Flying Fish, 1979) Paul Shapiro, Shofarot Verses (Tzadik, 2014) – rec. 2013 Avery Sharpe, Extended Family II Thoughts of My Ancestors (JKNM, 1995) – rec. 1994 Antonio Pinho Vargas, Selos E Borboletas (EMI, 1991)