Resonance Records is a division of the Rising Jazz Stars Foundation, a California 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation created to discover the next jazz stars - passionate, brilliant musicians from around the world. We assist and support them through recording, performance opportunities and distribution of their art. Every Resonance CD and DVD is produced without compromise, to create and preserve our artists' jazz legacy.

Our Team

George Klabin - President
He is the founder and president of the Rising Jazz Stars Foundation, and the centerpiece of his bold and innovative plan is Resonance Records, a new Los Angeles-based label that released its first recordings in March of 2008. Klabin, with over two decades of experience as a producer and audio engineer, has recorded a full spectrum of Jazz heavyweights for a wide variety of major labels. These include Dexter Gordon, Bill Evans, James Moody, Illinois Jacquet, Keith Jarrett, Albert Ayler, Charles Lloyd, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band and many more. As owner of the legendary New York recording studio Sound Ideas, Klabin was the overseer of sessions for top stars like James Brown and Quincy Jones as well as pure jazz giants such as Sonny Stitt, Tommy Flanagan and Archie Shepp. Drawing from that priceless experience and his direct participation in the New York jazz scene from the mid-‘60s into the ‘80s, Klabin combined it with 10 years of experience in the world of non-profit foundations to form the Rising Jazz Stars Foundation in 2005. For information, read an extensive interview with George Klabin and this article by Jazz.com.

Zev Feldman - Executive Vice President & General Manager

Nancy Scibilia - Operations Manager
"Google me" - Nancy

Sydney B. Lanex - Label / Product Manager
Sydney B. Lanex is a twenty year veteran of the music industry and has held GM & VP positions at Cleopatra, Metal Blade and Triple XXX Records. Sydney also is the founder and owner of Medical Records. He has an extensive licensing background and has licensed albums ranging from Billie Holiday, B.B. King and Elvis Presley to DJ Superstar Keoki, The Sex Pistols and Sigue Sigue Sputnik. He's also helped to establish unknown and underground artists of all genres such as GWAR, Lucretia's Daggers and The Tarpaulins just to mention a few. Sydney has served as consultant and Internet marketer to labels such as Lakeshore Records & UBL Records. Studying jazz music in school as a child set him onto his journey into music and the music industry. Traveling through punk, metal, goth and techno and coming full circle back to jazz has been a great road trip for him.