Praise for Adam
Rudolph's Moving Pictures
Concert Reviews :
"They managed to create
a magical and enchanted atmosphere."
Musica Jazz (Italy)
"A project of haunting power and beauty. Captivating and
profoundly beautiful."
Earshot Jazz
"Rudolph reinvents world music
for sophisticated listeners...he fuses many world musics into
a very artful, and keenly constructed debut"
EAR
"A masterful blending of jazz styling
and instrumental prowess"
VARIETY
"Their set was the best of the (Verona
Jazz) festival"
LA CRONACA
"With Moving Pictures...the
evening ended up in heaven"
SABATO
"Percussionist Adam
Rudolph composes vivid, atmospheric soundtracks using jazz, blues,
Middle Eastern, African, and Asian motifs over grooving rhythms...all
thoroughly integrated and precipitously balanced"
AUDIO
"The level of professionalism
is so high, what we get is the world music equivalent of jazz
elders deftly improvising around one another"
THE BEAT
"At the Painted Bride Art Center on March 1, 2008, Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures gave its listeners a musical journey around the world in 2 hours or less. Days later, some were still talking about the concert, saying things such as “life affirming” and “the most beautiful music I’ve heard in a long time.” Rudolph, who recently moved back East, has been a long time explorer of world sounds and instruments. He has developed a series of grids, each with their own sonic integrity. The harmonies produced are not traditional and lead to unique sounds. Wessel said, “one of the cool things about this band is that we are all in the process of discovery. I’m having fun…We’re like kids learning new material.”
The compositions tended to be short with a nice mix in tempo variation. Gorn’s bamboo flute and Rothenberg’s shakuhachi work were precise, thrilling and exotic. Haynes’ horns added a Miles-esque edge along with enough grit to dig in and Drake, as always, was masterful, either laying back setting the mood or freeing it up late in the affair. Rudolph primarily jammed on his handrumset when he wasn’t directing the band, tossing forth wide ranging rhythms. His duo with Drake was priceless.
Ken Weiss - Cadence Magazine
DREAM GARDEN CD REVIEWS:
Adam Rudolph is percussion master, composer, arranger, and producer. On Dream Garden, his debut for Justin Time Records, Rudolph moves his group into an entirely new sphere, one in which the culminations of his hundreds of collaborations and his multi-disciplinary approach to composition and improvisation all come to bear on a single recording.
This is, thus far, a career achievement for Rudolph, one that should finally make the jazz world sit up and take notice of this man as a front line composer and bandleader, as an arranger, mentor, and improviser who doesn't acknowledge boundaries between different musical traditions, but knows and respects their lineages enough to understand how they connect and speak to one another endlessly.
Thom Jurek - AllMusicGuide.com
"Adam Rudolph's music embraces a wide tonal and timbral palette to create cinematic, evocative music."
-Soundslope.com
"A worldwide jazz that looks for wide open vistas of music for its inspiration."
- Jazz and Blues Music Reviews
I've dug everything I've heard from Adam Rudolph in the past, but this disc is extraordinary. With 'Dream Garden,' Adam has put together an incredible all-star ensemble with most members based in the New York area. With two master percussionists involved, this music is often rhythmically based and we often hear layers of interlocking rhythms.
This wonderful, quietly intense music also combines many cultures, as well as the ancient with the modern.
Bruce Lee Galanter - Downtown Music Gallery
EDITORIAL RATING: 5 stars
Adam Rudolph has been working towards a truly universal sound for 30 years and on Dream Garden, he finds it. His brilliantly soulful band members are each possessed of an expansive musical vocabulary. With amazing tonal variety, they chart a course between freedom and polyrhythmic fury. Rudolph’s percussion arrangements — featuring Hamid Drake at his very best — are dense and driving, and his powerful melodies recall New Thing jazz at its finest. This is life-affirming music
David Dacks - Eye Weekly
Adam's music is more liberated than free jazz, much more dynamic than fusion and it brings the world back home. Through complex rhythmic patterns and brilliant instrumentation, Dream Garden is a vibrant collage that's soulful, edgy and refreshingly spiritual.
Marc Myers - JazzWax.com
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