Adam Rudolph



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

In 1988, Rudolph met jazz musician Yusef Lateef, and the two would go on to collaborate and perform together for the next 25 years.

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.

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)

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)