Jazz Articles about Adam Rudolph

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Adam Rudolph/Go Organic Orchestra: Web Of Light & 1

by Mark Corroto
May 3, 2003

Without proselytizing like Sun Ra about healing and world peace by way of music, I will tell you that composer and handdrummer/percussionist Adam Rudolph creates truly spiritual music.

These two recordings by his large Organic Orchestra are ambitious undertakings that combine woodwinds and percussionists to create sounds that are both classical and jazz at the same time. Rudolph’s vision is one that intersects Western and World music at a common beat. Without employing an ethnomusicologist, I hear the ...

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Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures: Contemplations

by Derek Taylor
August 1, 2000

Though Jazz remains one of the preeminent forms of improvised music in the West it's sometimes easy to forget that improvisation as an art form and musical technique actually far predates it. Numerous Non-Western cultures have incorporated improvisational techniques into their musical forms for thousands of years. Percussionist Adam Rudolph is dedicated to demonstrating and celebrating this fact. A look at his list of instruments on this date reveals the both the breadth and variation of his battery- fourteen different ...