Over the course of an illustrious twenty-five-year career, Rudresh Mahanthappa’s music making has constantly pushed at the artistic boundaries to encompass such diverse influences as classic bebop, the flash and fury of electric fusion, and the complexities of Carnatic music, while always maintaining a clear sense of his own fiercely intelligent, uncompromising musical personality.

““Rudresh is definitely one of the strongest voices on the jazz scene.”

– All Music
For Living Lovers is the acoustic duo of guitarist Brandon Ross and acoustic bass guitarist Stomu Takeishi. Founded in 2002, the duo developed while Ross and Takeishi were members of visionary, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Threadgill’s quintet, “Make A Move”.

“… Ross and Takeishi create tandem waves of sound that mimic a sitar one moment and a Tibetan singing bowl the next.”

– Downbeat