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Article: Profile

Adam Rudolph

by Rex Butters
March 13, 2010

Watching Adam Rudolph conduct the Go: Organic Orchestra is witnessing the embodiment of music. Rudolph takes on the role of sound sculptor, leading the specially-trained musicians through channels of sound as they occur to him in the course of performance, mixing and editing with hand signals, facial expressions and bodily torque. The only constant in the ...

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Article: Profile

Harris Eisenstadt

by Clifford Allen
February 7, 2010

One normally thinks of the drummer-bandleader chair in this music as easily given to a mentality that embraces “more is more." Whether bombastic or just plain full, drummers' bands often focus on mass, rhythm and time. In the post-free arena, leaders like Gerry Hemingway, John Hollenbeck and Harris Eisenstadt have learned not only that every instrument ...

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Article: Live From New York

February 2010

by AAJ Staff
February 4, 2010

Jack DeJohnette BirdlandNew York, NY January 5, 2010When Jack DeJohnette hires double-neck guitarist David Fuze" Fiuczynski and acclaimed altoist Rudresh Mahanthappa as the frontline in his new quintet, he's probably signaling an intention to shred. The legendary drummer did exactly that when he debuted the new Jack DeJohnette Group at ...

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Article: Interview

Harris Eisenstadt: From Mbalax to Canada Day

by Clifford Allen
October 5, 2009

Over the past decade, drummer, bandleader and composer Harris Eisenstadt has been a force in improvised music, active in both Los Angeles and New York (where he now resides). It's a testament to his creativity and energy that his ensembles have run the gamut from free-bop in the vein of post-Blue Note small groups, to orchestral ...

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Article: Live Review

Punkt Festival 2009: Day 2, Kristiansand, Norway, September 3, 2009

by John Kelman
September 5, 2009

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 One of Punkt's many definers is its fearless avoidance of stylistic boundaries. Some festivals are expanding their stylistic purview out of necessity; Punkt has always been style-blind by definition. So it's not uncommon to find a program where some of today's greatest experimentalists ...

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Article: Live Review

Punkt Festival 2009: Day 1, Kristiansand, Norway, September 2, 2009

by John Kelman
September 4, 2009

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 ---> Every festival has its raison d'être, but the Kristiansand festival, in Norway, has many. It's primary definer is its “Live Remix" concept--where performances in Agder Theatre's main hall are immediately followed by live remixes of the performance just passed, with additional musicians interacting, ...

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News: Award / Grant

CMA Announces $253,000 in Grants to Jazz Ensembles

July 30, 2009

NEW YORK, NY -- Chamber Music America (CMA), celebrating its 32nd year of service to ensemble music professionals, today announced the recipients of 12 grants through CMAs New Jazz Works: Commissioning and Ensemble Development program. The grantees were selected in June by an independent, five-member panel of professional jazz musicians. CMA received 161 applications from jazz ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

CODONA: The CODONA Trilogy

by Jeff Stockton
May 16, 2009

CODONA The CODONA Trilogy ECM Records 2009 Somewhere along the way “world music" became a suspect term. Mixed up with the concept of “new age," it makes you think more about hemp clothing, crystal therapy and holistic healing than the sort of basic elemental sounds trumpeter Don Cherry pioneered in ...

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News: Recording

Go: Organic Orchestra Concert and Download

April 2, 2009

GO: ORGANIC ORCHESTRA will be performing a new series of concerts @ Roulette, New York city MONDAYS May 11, 18, 25, 2009 8:30pm It will be our 3rd year developing this prototypical concept at our triannual series @ Roulette and 8th year of the existence of the Go: Organic Orchestra concept. 42 ...

Album

Thought Forms

By Adam Rudolph

Label: Meta Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Overture; Mirrors; Axis: Ka; Romance; Sonar; Interior; Circular; Kaleidophone; Atmos; Golden; River Run.