Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures

Rudolph has been scrambling genres since 1977 while a member of Mandingo Griot Society, Foday Musa Suso's kora-funk experiment, but the seeds for Moving Pictures were sown in 1991's Gift of the Gnawa -- with Hassan Hakmoun, Don Cherry and Richard Horowitz -- which combined Moroccan and Indian rhythms as the kernal of jazz-based explorations. His expanded roster this time includes Shankar on double violin; Wah Wah Watson, electric guitar; Jihad Racy, Middle Eastern flutes; Susan Allen, concert harp; Ralph Jones, saxophones, woodwinds; and G.E. Stinson, bottleneck slide guitar -- plus Rudolph on hand drums and samples. Results are as uneven as you might expect, but Rudolph lets in enough chaos to keep the experiment full of life.