Bob Rusch

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Name = Bob Rusch


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Born = 1945, New York
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Genre = jazz
Occupation = critic, producer
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Label = Cadence Jazz, CIMP
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URL = [http://www.cadencebuilding.com cadencebuilding.com]
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Bob Rusch (b. 1945, New York) is an American jazz critic and record producer.

Rusch studied clarinet and drums in his youth. During the 1970s, Rusch played drums in workshops with Jaki Byard and Cedar Walton.cite book |editor=Ron Wynn (ed.) |others=with Michael Erlewine, Vladimir Bogdanov & Chris Woodstra |title=All Music Guide to Jazz |edition=1st edition |series=All Music Guide |year=1994 |publisher=Miller Freeman Books |location=San Francisco |isbn=0-87930-308-5 |pages=pp. 711-712 |chapter=Producers] He wrote for the magazines "Down Beat", "Jazz Journal" and "Jazz Forum" in the 1970s before founding "Cadence Magazine" in 1975. He founded two noted labels, Cadence Jazz (in 1980) and CIMP (in 1995), and produced or oversaw the release of hundreds of jazz releases; among those he has produced are Bill Dixon, Chet Baker, Glenn Spearman, Ernie Krivda, Ivo Perelman, Noah Howard, Dominic Duval, Steuart Liebig, Cecil Taylor, Fred Hess, Anthony Braxton, Bill Barron, Paul Smoker, and Steve Swell. He has run North Country Record Distribution, an independent jazz label distributor, since 1983. Rusch has donated his large, indexed collection of jazz periodicals to the Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

References

*Scott Yanow, [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0pfexqlgld6e~T1 Bob Rusch] at Allmusic