Adam Rudolph

Adam Rudolph
Adam Rudolph and his Moving Pictures performing in 2006.
Background information
Born	(1955-09-12) September 12, 1955 (age 61) Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Genres	World fusion African music
Occupation(s)	Percussionist
Instruments	Handrumset Sintir Cajon various percussion
Associated acts	Eternal Wind Mandingo Griot Society Yusef Lateef Hamid Drake Don Cherry

Adam Rudolph (born September 12, 1955) is a composer, improviser, and percussionist actively involved in modern music. For the past four decades Rudolph has performed extensively in concert throughout North & South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Rudolph has been hailed as "a pioneer in world music" by the New York Times and "a master percussionist" by Musician Magazine. He has released over 25 recordings under his own name, featuring his compositions and percussion work. Rudolph composes for his ensembles Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures, the Hu Vibrational percussion group, and Go: Organic Orchestra, an 18 to 54 piece ensemble for which he has developed an original music notation and conducting system. He has taught and conducted hundreds of musicians worldwide utilizing the Go: Organic Orchestra concept. In 1995 Rudolph premiered his opera The Dreamer, based on the text of Friedreich Nietzche's "The Birth of Tragedy."

Rudolph has performed with Don Cherry, Jon Hassell, Sam Rivers, Pharaoh Sanders, Bill Laswell, Herbie Hancock, Foday Musa Suso, Massimo Laguardia, L. Shankar, A.A.C.M. co-founders Fred Anderson and Muhal Richard Abrams, Wadada Leo Smith, and Omar Sosa. He has toured extensively and recorded 15 albums with Yusef Lateef including duets and their large ensemble compositional collaborations.