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Gusten Rudolph
Now, my career consists of playing professionally with different ensembles throughout the Tri-State area and working with students of all ages helping them experience the joy and challenges I so greatly appreciate about the process. I offer private lessons (that’s probably why you’re here!) and also teach in various middle and high schools in the area, including the Strath Haven drumline during marching band season.
Professionally, I have been fortunate to be featured on some incredible recordings and to have toured Asia and across the United States playing with different groups. Music is universal and offers us so much, whether it is connecting with others, expanding our own skills, understanding ourselves better, or simply building passion and resilience through learning. My philosophy includes a focus on teaching the musical skills while fostering the life lessons that will help my students be successful in all of their endeavors.
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Elliot Bild & the Zone: ISMS

by Nicholas F. Mondello
A textural and improvisational tour de force from Elliot Bild and the Zone, ISMS, recorded live, consists of ten selectionsnine of which are Bild originalsand offers up an evening of intelligent and enlightening jazz. Army of Aliens (Your Thoughts)" opens the set and is a classic hard-bop burner with Bild and saxophonist Hudson-Casanova lifting off the launch pad. Lines and Dots" is a tasty bossa with an angular melodic head reminiscent of Oliver Nelson's symmetrical melodic patterns.
Continue ReadingJeff Dingler: In Transit

by Friedrich Kunzmann
Living and working between the African and North American continent, bassist Jeff Dingler combines the influences of the two essentially different musical cultures on his sophomore effort, appropriately entitled In Transit, creating a most fluent fusion of Ethio-Jazz in a Bebop context. The musicians enhancing and realizing his musical vision are drummer Gusten Rudolph, pianist Lou Rainone and guitarist Brad Shepik, who himself experiments much in fusing world-music and jazz--just recently apparent on his latest project Human Activity Suite, which ...
Continue ReadingJonathan Saraga Quintet: First Vision

by Dan Bilawsky
When young artists release their first album, it's always tempting to say they show potential" or are off to a good start," but those comments tend to be kindly veiled takes on you get an A for effort, but should have waited a bit longer." Jonathan Saraga need not worry about having such pacifying comments thrown his way; the trumpeter's First Vision isn't the stuff of amateurs on the brink of musical maturity, it's a stand-up-and-take-notice offering. ...
Continue ReadingJonathan Saraga Quintet: First Vision

by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter Jonathan Saraga opens his debut, First Vision with the eleven-and-a-half-minute original, Guidance," a probing rumination that flares up during his solo. The tune as a whole is a slow burn, but it bursts into high flames as it comes to its conclusion.The leader has assembled a fine quintet of standard configuration--two horns, a chording instrument (here, guitar), bass and drums. The music, all Saraga-penned, has an uncommon freshness coming from a 24 year-old artist who is well ...
Continue ReadingJonathan Saraga: First Vision

by Hrayr Attarian
Award-winning trumpeter Jonathan Saraga's First Vision, is a skillfully conceived and exquisitely realized debut that brings to mind the edgy, envelope-pushing hard bop of many a Blue Note record in the early 1960s. The modal melodies are artfully orchestrated, allowing each musician the full breadth of his spontaneous creativity without resorting to unfettered clamor. Not a single note is wasted. Whether on trumpet or flugelhorn, Saraga's clear, elegiac tone weaves intricate musical tales around the themes. Guidance," ...
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Kicking It With Kennard
From: Lingua FrancaBy Gusten Rudolph
Santa's Sleighin'
From: Santa's Sleighin'By Gusten Rudolph
Parallels of Latitude
From: ISMSBy Gusten Rudolph
This is Our Moment
From: Voice = PowerBy Gusten Rudolph
The Reiki Practitioner
From: First VisionBy Gusten Rudolph