bio

bio=A BRIEF HISTORY
(answering the tough questions)

updated 11.18.06

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Josh Rutner grew up in sunny Rochester, NY. He studied saxophone and improvisation with David Pope (a former student of Yusef Lateef), and attended the Eastman School of Music, receiving his degree in Jazz Performance in 2003. Spontaneity and humor pervade Josh’s playing. Steeped in jazz and improvisation, Josh also has a great deal of experience playing salsa & merengue, R&B, and eastern European folk music. Josh currently lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where he is a member of several ensembles including The Respect Sextet, The Andre Canniere Group, Teeth, Six Types of Ambiguity, F.L.A.P., and Electric Medicine.



DISCOGRAPHY
Josh is on a couple of recordings. Here's the list:

(with The Respect Sextet)

• Respect In You. [Roister Records, available January 2005]
• The Full Respect [Roister Records, 2003]
• (respookt.) [2003]
• (respectacle.) [2002]
• (respect.) [2002]

• Time To Start [2003]

• Steve Reich's Triple Quartet [Nonesuch, 2001]

• no swingouts, Rockaway [Anabel Records, 2002]