Ruby Flower Records signs with violinist Zoltan Lantos for an album with his quartet "MirrorWorld" planned to be released by the end of the year 2007. Zoltan Lantos is a violinist of many faces, colors and musical tongues. During his rigorous training at the Music Academy of his hometown, Budapest, he already appeared at the Eastern-European avant-garde scene but shortly after received a degree in classical violin (in 1984) and was now embarking …

HERB ROBERTSON: A brass user of all available means Born February 21st 1951 in Plainfield, New Jersey, Clarence Clifford Robertson Jr. is the son of a Scottish/American father and an Italian/American mother. He grew up in the white middle class of Piscataway, New Jersey and became interested in music during his childhood. As the young and shy boy that he was (and he remains), he received his first trumpet from the scho …

Grammy winner Eric Revis knows what he desires and how he prefers it done. As a bass instrumentalist and composer, such power have assisted him fully to establish himself as a high skilled musician and enable him to release his latest CD Laughters Necklace of Tears, which features collaborations with Orrin Evans, Gerald Cleaver, John Ellis, Stacy Dillard and Oz Noy. He remarks that jazz found him when he started off playing electric bass in funk …

Dee Dee Bridgewater has been always unbounded in all things she does. Like the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, she has an imposing chronicle. The 15th annual Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival, celebrating the centenary of Mary Lou William’s Birth, hosted the All-Star Quintet composed by Dee Dee on vocal, Grace Kelly on saxophone, Geri Allen on piano, Esperanza Spalding on bass and Terri Lyne Carrington on drums. The addition of these musicians says a lot about the lead

PARALLELISM RF04CD Herb Robertson, Evan Parker & Agustí Fernandéz TRIBUTE by Barry Guy Music played by masters of improvisation. Masters of space, tessitura and instrumental control and masters in the art of knowing when and where to place those vital sounds that treat us to a tapestry of constantly shifting aural landscapes. There were moments when listening to this album where I was tempted to replay in my mind certain memories of h