The basement of this artist enclave housed studios for various artists and musicians including at the time The Lounge Lizards and Suzanne Vega.
Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards | Trees Lounge | Tootsie's Orchid Lounge | The Flying Lizards | Mercury Lounge | lounge lizard | Green Mill Cocktail Lounge | Voodoo Lounge | The Lyricist Lounge Show | The Lounge Lizards | Still Alive at the Veglia Lounge | Skytop Lounge | Plaza Premium Lounge | Mother-in-Law Lounge | Mermaid Lounge | Lyricist Lounge | Loser's Lounge | Fiend Club Lounge | Barking Lizards Technologies | Austin Lounge Lizards |
In 1987, he and saxophonist Roy Nathanson, both members of the Lounge Lizards, founded The Jazz Passengers, an eclectic group dedicated to putting entertainment and humor back into jazz.
It features performances of a range of Ribot's music and appearances by Anthony Coleman, Brad Jones, EJ Rodriguez, Los Cubanos Postizos, Catherine Janiaux, The Lounge Lizards, Shrek, Christine Bard, Ted Reichman, John Zorn, Ned Rothenberg, Sim Caine, Bruce Cox, Dave Hofstra and Arto Lindsay.