Scarlet Rivera

 Exciting, original, expressive and completely singular."  These are but a few of the words used to describe Scarlet Rivera.

Robert W. Butler of the New York Times said, "Miss Rivera shows herself to be one of the best woman Jazz-Pop instrumentalists around, and quite simply on of the best violinists playing today.

Her performances on Bob Dylan's Desire prompted John Rockwell of the New York Times to say, "It is Miss Rivera who adds to Mr. Dylan's music more than anyone else.  Her playing is superb…the rich gutty sound …
lends an amazing ominousness to the songs…"

George Kanzier of the Star Ledger in his review of A Tribute to Ellington wrote "As a violinist, Rivera was broadly lyrical on one of the most achingly tender ballads in the Ellington-Strayhorn composition Daydream…
she had no trouble invoking his Gypsy-Jazz spirit and janty swing on the up-tempo numbers."

Though Scarlet is a composer and performer in her own right, she has made vital contributions to Dylan's Desire and Hard Rain albums, the John Hammond special for NBC, the film Renaldo and Clara and several cuts on Biograph and The Bootleg Tapes.  She is featured on Tracey Chapman's Crossroads, Stanley Clarke's Just Family, David Johanson's Funky but Chic, Paraphernalia by Peacock Palace, Head Like a Rock by Ian McNabb and Sounds of the Rain Forest by Scott Fitzgerald.

She has toured extensively with the Indigo Girls, Tracey Chapman, The Duke Ellington Orchestra and others and in 1994 she recorded her fifth solo album, Behind the Crimson Veil, a European release on Erdenklang Records.  She previously recorded Journey With And Angel on Polygram International Records, followed by the CD Live in Montreux, as well as two Warner Brother releases.  Her group has performed in concert halls and major festivals in the USA and Europe.  A review from Le Rock-Jazz stated, "There is a joyous energy and spirit of childhood in her compositions…you will be drawn into its exotic beauty, pleasure and secret jubilation."

As a solo artist Scarlet is on of the handful of innovators of the violin who composes a truly original style of music rich in melody and texture and the current collaboration with Tommy Eyre on Behind the Crimson Veil, stands to realize the fullest expression of their combined musical potential.  Behind The Crimson Veil delivers an exotic blend of music with performances from the searing to the sublime.

Check out what the Pros are saying:

Tape Op  Magazine Review with Zaolla cables.

Audix
 

Bluebird Cafe
The Fret House