Adam Rudolph

Skyway is the second album by percussionist Adam Rudolph and his ensemble Moving Pictures, recorded at Stagg Street Studios in Los Angeles on 5 and 6 March 1994 and released by Soul Note the same year. The group sets Arabic instruments, harp and Korean zither, guitar and reeds over Rudolph's hand drums, in ten pieces that run from three and a half minutes to ten.

Rudolph's own credits list him on hand drums, tabla, the tar and bendir frame drums, udu, kalimba, gongs, bells, overtone flute and chant. Ali Jihad Racy plays ney, ud, kaman, mijwiz and rababah, Ralph Jones soprano and tenor saxophones, flutes and bass clarinet, Susan Allen concert harp and kayagum, and Kevin Eubanks acoustic guitar. Hannah Rudolph contributes poetry and recitation. Gary Denton engineered the session, Bryan Carlstrom mixed it, Rudolph produced it and painted the cover, and Yusef Lateef wrote the liner notes. The disc opens with Oshogbo and closes with Savannah, the longest piece at about ten minutes. Between them come Dreaming of the Skyway, at seven minutes the second longest, and shorter pieces such as Terra Incognita, Baraka and The Other Mind. With plucked strings and reed flutes on top and no bass or drum kit, the pulse comes from Rudolph's hand percussion.

This is the Soul Note CD 121269-2, first released in 1994.