In the new Philadelphia Weekly:
Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures
Fri., Apr. 9, 8pm. $25 ($12.50 members). Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St. 215.925.9914 www.paintedbride.org
Adam Rudolph describes the percussion and woodwind implements of his musical world as “membranophones,” “idiophones” and “aerophones.” The rhythmic language of his mammoth Go:Organic Orchestra he calls “cyclic verticalism.” This is heady systematized stuff, thick with harmonic abstraction, but it gives forth a visceral, accessible, pan-global jazz groove, by turns meditative and volatile. While Rudolph’s two new discs — Yèyí with reedist Ralph Jones and Towards the Unknown with the legendary Yusef Lateef — are clarion duo statements, his Moving Pictures band swells to include Jones, guitarist Kenny Wessel, bassist Jerome Harris, oud player Brahim Fribgane, trombonist Joe Bowie and cornetist Graham Haynes. Matt Kilmer joins Rudolph on percussion and other ’phones. — David R. Adler
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