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Artist Profiles
Adam Rudolph
Rex Butters
After years of writing music related articles, Rex still wonders who has time to listen to all these cds?"He's in his 90th year. Whenever he calls me I'm always glad to work with him because I've learned so much from him. I still learn from him. You know, this music is an oral tradition. There's an informational aspect to what you learn, but a lot of it is what you learn being around these elders, things that can't even be put into words that have to do with a creative attitude or a spiritual stance, a way of living, a way of working with materials, looking at process, creative process, looking at materials in fresh ways. And Yusef is always inventive and he really taught me. We began working together in 1988 and I really learned from him how to develop my own creative processes, how to think, how to trust your imagination and cultivate your intuition."
Rudolph sums up his approach this way, "Music comes from something greater than music and it can be about something greater than music."
Selected Discography
Pharoah Sanders/Hamid Drake/Adam Rudolph, Spirits (Meta, 1998)
Yusef Lateef/Adam Rudolph, Beyond the Sky (YAL/Meta, 2000)
Wadada Leo Smith/Adam Rudolph, Compassion (Meta/Kabell, 2002)
Yusef Lateef/Adam Rudolph Go: Organic Orchestra, In The Garden (YAL/Meta, 2003)
Sam Rivers/Adam Rudolph/Harris Eisenstadt, Vista (Meta, 2003)
Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures, Dream Garden (Justin Time, 2006)
