To say that FORBIDDEN FRUIT delivers "powerful and exquisite jazz" is to provide a simplistic report on the band and its music. Both defy effortless categorization because they transcend what jazz is and has been. This is not just the clever repackaging of a celebrated style or era; this is the intrigue of a fresh new essence, the clear dawning of a movement.

From the relentless sensuality of silky-smooth tunes to the adrenaline-soaked muscularity of classic jazz groove; from the sassy Caribbean temptress that is Punta style to the rainy -day remembrances conjured up by heartbreakingly tender ballads, FORBIDDEN FRUIT shapeshifts with a murcurial feel. It is like the stuff of wildest dreams ..... it is an extraordinary encasement of Land, Water, Air, and Time.

Abraham Burton(saxophone), Eric McPherson(percussion), Yosuke Inoue(bass) and James Hurt(piano) blend with refreshing acoustic naturalness to form one pulsating voice. Their awesome language curls hypnotically through primordial paths that abound with power. Their music is intense with reminiscence, selfrelevation, and the pro-mise of hope. In its every form, FORBIDDEN FRUIT displays an unusually intimate understanding of - and reference for - both truth and the human condition. It has something for everyone.

FORBIDDEN FRUIT is leagues beyond mere toe-tapping rhythms. It is a contemplation of life, how it cradles us, and the ways we ebb and flow inside it. It is a solid family of "creatures of the heart" that leaves you moving, singing aloud, sailing ever deeper toward the cell or your most secret core.

FORBIDDEN FRUIT is Man as Universe.

Abraham Burton, a New York native, studied at Hartford's Hartt School with Micheal Carvin and Jackie McLean. After graduation he joined Arthur Taylor's Wailers, participated in two albums and four European tours as a member of this band. With his own quartet, that recorded two albums, he toured Europe nine times since 1994 and is well in demand especially in Germany, but also the European festival scene knows him and his quartet in the meantime: Moers(2x), Leverkusen(2x), Berlin, Nürnberg, Apolda, Terrassa, Den Haag, Juan-les-Pins(2x), Hradec Kralove, Groningen, Turku, Mannheim, Cagliari and Torino. The other members of this exiting band are bassist Yosuke Inoue, born in Osaka, Japan in 1964 and living in New York today. He worked with greats like Hank Jones, Cindy Blackman, Terumasa Hino, Cyrus Chestnut, Yosuke Yamashita, Bennie Wallace, Carmen Lundy, Eddie Daniels and others. The piano-chair is taken by the highly talented young James Hurt, now a solo-artist on Blue Note, and whom some people might know from his cooperation with Antonio Hart. He recently performed a solo-concert for the German TV-station WDR in Cologne. The drummer is the incredible Eric McPherson, doubtless one of the big names of tomorrow. He grew up together with Abraham Burton, they went to all schools together and are musically inseparable. Besides this and some other groups he works mainly in Jackie McLean’s band.