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Jordan Rudess is a Juilliard-trained keyboard player and a member of the progressive rock bands Dream Theater and Liquid Tension Experiment. He has also done solo work, and was (unsurprisingly) one of the performers on the live album An Evening with John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess. Finally, he forms one half of the Rudess/Morgenstein Project with the drummer Rod Morgenstein.
Use of technology
While most keyboard players in rock bands tend towards bringing numerous keyboards on stage, Rudess takes full advantage of the possiblities offered by the Kurzweil K2x series. Often sampling sounds from other keyboards, Rudess creates a series of setups, each of which maps different sounds to different layers and key ranges of the keyboard controller; these setups are then arranged in the order they will be required for a gig, and cycled through one at a time with a control pedal.
Discography
Solo albums
- Rhythm of Time (CD) 2004
- Feeding the Wheel (CD)
- Listen (CD)
- Christmas Sky (CD)
- Secrets of the Muse (CD)
- Resonance (CD)
- Speedway Boulevard (CD)
With Dream Theater
- Scenes From A Memory (CD)
- Live Scenes From New York (DVD/3CD)
- Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (2CD) 2002
- Train Of Thought (CD) 2004
- Live At Budokan (2DVD/3CD) 2005
Project Albums
- Rudess/Morgenstein Project (CD) 1999
- Rudess/Morgenstein Project - The Official Bootleg (CD) 2001
- An Evening with John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess (CD) 2000
With Liquid Tension Experiment
- Liquid Tension Experiment 1 (CD)
- Liquid Tension Experiment 2 (CD)
Guest Appearance
- Vinnie Moore Time Odyssey 1988
- Noirin Ni Riain Celtic Soul 1996
- Rhonda Larson Free as a bird 1999
- Scott McGill Addition by Substraction 2001
- David Bowie Heathen 2002
- Jupiter Echo and Art 2003
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