Bob Rusch

Robert D. 'Bob' Rusch (born April 3, 1943 in New York City) is an American jazz critic and record producer. Rusch studied clarinet and drums in his youth and played drums in workshops with Jaki Byard and Cedar Walton during the 1970s. He wrote for the magazines Down Beat, Jazz Journal, and Jazz Forum in the 1970s before founding Cadence Magazine in 1975. In addition to being a critic, Rusch founded two record labels, Cadence Jazz (1980) and CIMP (1995), and produced or oversaw the release of numerous jazz albums. He has also run North Country Record Distribution, an independent jazz label distributor, since 1983.