ARTISTS RECORDING COLLECTIVE (ARC) is an internationally recognized structure and a professional recording label that acts for the promotion and distribution of the artistic works of its members. ARC offers great talents from around the world a platform adapted to the reality of the 21st-century music industry. Located in the Kansas City metropolitan area, ARC offers an artist-producer catalog requiring a dynamic and multi-dimensional platform to provide its members with a creative environment free from all restrictions. ARC was co-founded on December 7, 2007, by alto saxophonist Chris Burnett, tenor saxophonist Erica Lindsay, and pianist Sumi Tonooka to provide a professional response to the great void in the music industry at that time.