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Queen is back to Palco Mundo 30 years after the first Rock in Rio, this time with Adam Lambert giving voice to the themes which Freddie Mercury originally sang.

Strut present an exclusive collaboration between two jazz greats, Bennie Maupin and Adam Rudolph, on ‘Symphonic Tone Poem For Brother Yusef’, originally commissioned by the Angel City Jazz festival in Claremont, to mark the late, great Yusef Lateef’s 100th birthday on 9th October, 2020.

Adam Rudolph - Go: Organic Orchestra 1 (2001) {Meta Records 006 rel 2016}
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Jazz / Creative Music / Post Bop / Progressive Jazz / Percussion

Go: Organic Orchestra is a 21st century vision of a "future orchestra". Artistic director Adam Rudolph's prototypical approach to composing and improvisational conducting embraces music forms and cosmologies from around the world. Using a non-linear score with his unique approach to rhythm as the seed material, Rudolph improvisationally conducts the musicians in concert. This creates spontaneous orchestrations which serve as both context and inspiration for the musicians improvisational dialogue.

Yusef Lateef & Adam Rudolph - Beyond The Sky (2000) {Meta Digital Download, Bandcamp 16-44.1 rel 2018}
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Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Modern Creative / Post Bop / Saxophone / Flute / Percussion

Beyond the Sky features 10 new compositions by Rudolph and Lateef, 3 of which were co-composed. The music, written for eight musicians, was premiered at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully hall in honor of Yusef Lateef's sixty years of performing. This new CD was recorded the following day.

Sam Rivers, Adam Rudolph, Harris Eisenstadt - Vista (2004) {Meta Digital Download rel 2016}
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Jazz / Creative Music / Saxophone / Percussion

If life was fair, major record companies would be lining up to sign Sam Rivers and grant agencies would shower him with riches. Ah, but life is what it is, so Rivers will have to settle for being a free-jazz legend-which is fine with me so long as he keeps making records like this. Vista sets Rivers alongside a pair of very fine percussionists, Adam Rudolph and Harris Eisenstadt, in a series of Interstellar Space-type jams.

Pharoah Sanders, Hamid Drake, Adam Rudolph - Spirits (2000) {Meta Digital Download, Bandcamp 16-44.1 rel 2016}
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Jazz / Ethno Jazz / Progressive Jazz / World Fusion / Saxophone / Percussion

This in-concert recording at the Montreal Jazz Festival is a continual performance that acts as a suite in three basic parts, with Sanders on tenor sax, wood flutes, and percussion, helped by multipercussionists Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph. The music is as the title suggests: spiritual, multi-ethnic, mostly serene, and quite improvisationally derived. It's a beautiful statement from Sanders, very similar to the music Yusef Lateef has played (with Rudolph and Eternal Wind) and different than his more major-label efforts.

Yusef Lateef, Adam Rudolph, Go: Organic Orchestra - In the Garden (2003) {Meta Digital Download, Bandcamp 16-44.1 rel 2018}
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Jazz / Progressive Jazz / Creative Music / Experimental / Percussion

For this, the third concert recording of Go: Organic Orchestra, artistic director Adam Rudolph has reunited with longtime collaborator and mentor Yusef Lateef. Rudolph conducts the orchestra in an improvisational process, utilizing themes and cues he and Lateef have composed. From these compositional modules, Rudolph spontaneously constructs the sonic environments with which the soloists interact.