Known as a champion of contemporary music, percussionist Tom Kolor has performed with all the major new music ensembles, including the New York New Music Ensemble, the Group for Contemporary Music and Speculum Musicae, to name but a few. Kolor is a member of Talujon Percussion, which has given countless world premieres and made a significant contribution to the percussion quartet repertoire. He is on the faculty at the University of Buffalo SUNY, where he directs the percussion ensemble. For this disc of masterpieces for solo percussion, he has chosen two of America's composers who led the way in 20th century music development -- John Cage and Milton Babbitt.