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Lazaro Vega Posted March 29, 2009 Report Share Posted March 29, 2009 Mexicans San Frontiers is teaming up with Blue Lake to present the Adam Rudolph/Ralph Jones duo over Easter Weekend: Saturday, April 11th at 8 p.m. the Adam Rudolph/Ralph Jones duo perform a wordless psalm called “YEYI” (yay-yee) At Mexicains Sans Frontieres, 120 South Division Ave, #226, Grand Rapids, MI, 49503. Special Guests: Corey Eno Ruffin & End Times Quartet also perform. Featuring Adam Rudolph: Membranophones and Idiophones: handrumset (congas, djembe, tarija), frame drum, thumb pianos, gongs, percussion and mulitphonic singing, sintir, piano. And Ralph Jones: Aerophones: alto & C flutes, bass clarinet, tenor & soprano saxophone, ney, hichiriki, bagpipes, bamboo flutes and piano. Information from www.metarecords.com/adam.html. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazaro Vega Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 ADAM RUDOLPH & RALPH JONES DUET present YEYI (yay-yee) World Premiere A Wordless Psalm of Prototypical Vibrations Adam Rudolph: Membranophones and Idiophones: handrumset (congas, djembe, tarija), frame drum, thumb pianos, gongs, percussion and mulitphonic singing, sintir, piano Ralph Jones: Aerophones: alto & C flutes, bass clarinet, tenor & soprano saxophone, ney, hichiriki, bagpipes, bamboo flutes and piano "The evening was transformed into an extraordinary and lyrical happening with music of ethereal light" IL GIORNALE Adam Rudolph’s and Ralph Jones first performed together in 1974 at the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival. They have collaborated together in numerous projects including their collective quartet Eternal Wind (1980 – 1990) Kenne Cox’s Guerrilla Jam Band, De Candombe, Wadada Leo Smith, and Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures. In 1988 they began their association with Yusef Lateef with whom they have performed and recorded in Trio Quartet, Octet and as featured soloists in Dr. Lateefs “The African American Epic Suite” with the Koln, Atlanta, and Detroit Symphony Orchestras. Their music is grounded in the American improvisational tradition while embracing music forms, languages, instrumentation, and cosmologies of Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the African Diaspora. Decades of performance and research into these music cultures have given the artists the background and experience to create a unique and unprecedented improvisational art form. Since 1991 they performed at many concert venues in both Europe and the United States, including Verona, Istanbul and Tampere festivals. Their concert repertoire consists of original compositions by Mr. Rudolph that serve as a basis for improvisational dialogue. About Yeyi: Yeyi is Mbuti yodeling - a wordless offering in thanks to the forest for …..Compositional forms serve as thematic material to provide an orchestrated context for improvisational dialogue. Music materials consist, among other things, of original melodies, textural gestures, sound languages, tone rows, traditional and synthetic scales, diadic and intervallicaly generated harmonies, call and response, polyphony, dynamics, and the coloration of silences. Unique forms are generated through the concept of “Cyclic Verticalism”, whereby polyrhythms, as used in African music, are combined with rhythm cycles, as used in Indian music. When combined with the above-described tonal materials, larger forms can be generated. In the compositions these materials are utilized to serve emotional coloration; what in India is called Rasa. Performers are given the freedom to use their imagination and listening ability to develop the compositions within their own individual motion and timing, while still relating to the overall form and to the aesthetic and musical functions. The concept is to generate unusual relationships of sound against sound, form against form, and rhythm against rhythm in a non-linear, ever shifting kaleidoscope of music images. BIOGRAPHIES: Born in 1955, handrummer, percussionist, composer, multi instrumentalist and improviser ADAM RUDOLPH has been hailed as “a pioneer in world music” by the NY times. Currently he composes for his groups Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures quartet and octet, Hu: Vibrational trio, and Go: Organic Orchestra, a 15 – 50 piece ensemble for which he has developed an original music notation and conducting system. He has taught and conducted hundreds of musicians in the Go: Organic Orchestra concept in both North America and Europe. Rudolph recently premiered his opera The Dreamer, based on the text of Friedreich Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy". Rudolph has recently had his rhythm repository and methodology book, Pure Rhythm published by Advance Music, Germany. He has performed at festivals and concerts throughout North & South America, Europe, Africa, and Japan, appeared on numerous albums and released over twenty recordings as a leader. Over the past 25 years Rudolph has developed a unique syncretic approach to hand drumming in creative collaborations with outstanding artists of cross-cultural and improvised music, including Jon Hassel, L. Shankar, Joseph Bowie, Fred Anderson, Hassan Hakmoun and Wadada Leo Smith among others. He has released over a dozen recordings on his own Meta Records label documenting his compositions for various size ensembles as well as his collaborations with artists such as Sam Rivers, Omar Sosa, and Pharaoh Sanders. In 1988 Rudolph began his association with Yusef Lateef, with whom he has recorded over 15 albums including several of their large ensemble collaborations. Rudolph still performs worldwide with Dr. Lateef in ensembles ranging from their acclaimed duo concerts to appearances as guest soloist with the Koln, Atlanta and Detroit symphony orchestras. He has been on the faculty of Esalen Institute, California Institute of the Arts and the Danish Jazz Federation Summer Institute. Rudolph has received grants and compositional commissions from the Rockefeller Foundation, Chamber Music America, Meet the Composer, Mary Flagler Cary Trust, the NEA, Arts International, Durfee Foundation and American Composers Forum. RALPH M. JONES has been active as a performing artist in the African-American Improvisational tradition for over 30 years. As an internationally recognized performing artist, he has recorded and performed throughout the U.S., Europe, Africa and Asia with Dr. Yusef Lateef, Pharaoh Sanders, AhmedAbdul Malik, Ella Fitzgerald, Wadada Leo Smith, Ken Cox the MC5, Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures, Go: Organic Orchestra and his group, The Seekers of Truth Revolutionary Ensemble( SOTRE). Ralph has been a featured soloist with the WDR Radio Orchestra of Koln, Germany, and the Atlanta and Detroit Symphonies in the premiers and performances of Dr. Lateef's "African American Epic Suite" for quintet and orchestra. He is also a founding member of the internationally acclaimed world music ensemble, Eternal Wind. Ralph has recently composed original music for the award-winning documentary film, "Tell Me, Cuba" and provided original music for a new production of the critically acclaimed play "Death of a Salesman" featuring Avery Brooks. His most CD recent release is "Yusef Lateef & Ralph M. Jones III: Woodwinds" on YAL records. He has earned his Masters degree in African- American Studies and his B.A. in Ethnomusicology from UCLA, where he also studied the hichiriki with Japanese Gagaku master Togi. As an educator, he is in his 16th year on the music faculty of the California State Summer School for the Arts and is presently Faculty in Residence at Oberlin College's Afrika Heritage House. For more about Adam Rudolph and Ralph Jones Duet please visit: www.metarecords.com http://www.myspace.com/movingpicturesquartet http://www.youtube.com/adamtabl http://www.metarecords.com ADAM RUDOLPH AND RALPH JONES PRESS REVIEWS: "The evening was transformed into an extraordinary and lyrical happening with music of ethereal light" IL GIORNALE "A pioneer in world music." NEW YORK TIMES "They managed to create a magical and enchanted atmosphere." MUSICA JAZZ "Their set was the best of the (Verona Jazz) festival" LA CRONACA "A masterful blending of jazz styling and instrumental prowess." -Variety "World jazz of the highest caliber." -Boston Globe "Percussionist Adam Rudolph has been fusing jazz and world music for decades, to the point where the two coexist as a seamless whole." -The Philadelphia Daily News "A project of haunting power and beauty. Captivating and profoundly beautiful." -Earshot Jazz "Adam Rudolph is percussion master...Dream Garden [is] a career achievement for Rudolph, one that should finally make the jazz world sit up and take notice." -All Music Guide "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 "A vibrant collage that's soulful, edgy and refreshingly spiritual." - Jazzwax.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazaro Vega Posted April 12, 2009 Report Share Posted April 12, 2009 Up for tonight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted April 12, 2009 Report Share Posted April 12, 2009 Up for tonightLaz, how is that Hot Club group? I kind of like gypsy jazz when I hear it. Except when the guitar players try to copy Django too much---near-certain artistic death. But that stuff is real fun to hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werf Posted April 12, 2009 Report Share Posted April 12, 2009 Up for tonight Should be cool. Show was great last night at Mexicains sans Frontiers. Two sets that displayed some tightly controlled, but loosely conveyed musical conversation between Rudolf and Jones. Plenty of a telepathic interplay. Idiomatically non-jazz, yet improvisationally in the spirit. The audience loved it, including me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazaro Vega Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 Up for James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band Monday night at 10 p.m. edt "Live From Blue Lake." Since Dapogny and Chicago drummer Wayne Jones founded this octet in the mid-1970's, the group has enjoyed an on-going career playing music from the first 40 years of jazz, including several recordings and a number of concerts at the Smithsonian. Then, Wednesday night at midnight until Thursday morning at 1 a.m. edt the re-broadcast of Easter Sunday's performance by percussionist Adam Rudolph and woodwinds virtuoso Ralph Jones. Hope you can join us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazaro Vega Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 Up for Tuesday with 'the boys.' LV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted May 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 It's gonna be fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazaro Vega Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 Set up is under way. Nessa is off listening to the Truth in Jazz Orchestra in Muskegon (The West Side Inn, a converted victorian cottage/neighborhood bar = great hang) and might stop in later. Looking forward to tonight. Care to join us? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Skid Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 I'm in, tuning in right now! (TIJO kicked ass tonight, looking forward to hearing organissimo do the same!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 we wuz there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alocispepraluger102 Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 (edited) what a delightful hour!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks. good taste these days is a seldom thing. it sounds like you and the 'boner go way back. ever done any duo stuff or recordings with paul? Edited May 13, 2009 by alocispepraluger102 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachel Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 (edited) I loved J. J. Johnson's "Lament". I think I'm going to pull out my J. J. Johnson Mosaic when I get home from work to unwind. Also giggled at Lazaro's "sansabelt" reference when intro'ing Senor Buffet. Edited May 13, 2009 by rachel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted May 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 It was a fun night. I'm going to do a little sweetening to the audio we have and post it on the site in the next few days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe G Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 It was a fun night. I'm going to do a little sweetening to the audio we have and post it on the site in the next few days. Sprinkling some fairy dust on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted May 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 "I'll piss on the tape!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alocispepraluger102 Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 ......and the 'boner'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted May 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 what a delightful hour!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks. good taste these days is a seldom thing. it sounds like you and the 'boner go way back. ever done any duo stuff or recordings with paul? We were just discussing it last night. You'll probably see some stuff in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregN Posted May 14, 2009 Report Share Posted May 14, 2009 "I'll piss on the tape!" "I do know it needs strings...that I do know" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted May 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2009 What about a fucking 12-string? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted May 14, 2009 Report Share Posted May 14, 2009 What about a fucking 12-string? Does Greg think he's Leadbelly now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted May 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2009 Have you heard the Troggs outtakes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alocispepraluger102 Posted May 14, 2009 Report Share Posted May 14, 2009 (edited) what a delightful hour!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks. good taste these days is a seldom thing. it sounds like you and the 'boner go way back. ever done any duo stuff or recordings with paul? We were just discussing it last night. You'll probably see some stuff in the future. a (preferrably live) collection of rich ballads and light numbers with just you two would be to die for. Edited May 14, 2009 by alocispepraluger102 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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