Joe Rushton

Augustine Joseph "Joe" Rushton ( born April 19, 1907 in Evanston (Illinois ); † March 2, 1964 in San Francisco) was an American bass saxophonist of hot jazz and swing. Earlier in his career he played clarinet and saxophones different; 1928 was the bass saxophone to his main instrument. Considered alongside Adrian Rollini as one of the most famous players of this instrument from the early days of jazz.

Rushton ran from 1928 to 1932 in Chicago own band. He then played with Pete Daily, Ted Weems (1934 ), Jimmy McPartland ( 1934-37, 1940) and Bud Freeman and bridged gaps by working in the aviation industry. Then he moved to New York City, where he worked with Benny Goodman (1942 /43). Subsequently, he was active in California in Horace Heidt ( 1943-45 ). In 1947, he was for many years a member of the Five Pennies Red Nichols, with whom he worked until 1963. Under his own name, he played a 1945/47 plate six pages for Jump Records, otherwise he was active as an accompanist. He took with Bud Jacobsen ( 1941), Pete Daily, Charles La Vere (1945 ), Red Nichols, Paul Whiteman, Floyd O'Brien and the Rampart Street Paraders on.

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