Josh Sinton

Josh Sinton, 2014

Josh Sinton (born October 29, 1971 in Massachusetts ) is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( baritone saxophone , bass clarinet ).

Life

Sinton grew up in Pine Barrens, New Jersey, and played piano, trombone and clarinet in high school before switching to the alto saxophone. He studied composition and ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago , and had lessons with Ari Brown and Ken Vandermark . After various day jobs, he continued his studies at the New England Conservatory in 1999 . a. with Steve Lacy , Ran Blake , Jerry Bergonzi and Dominique Eade . Since the mid-2000s he has worked with Kirk Knuffke , Adam Hopkins and Tomas Fujiwara in the Steve Lacy project Ideal Bread , as well as with Anthony Braxton , Jon Irabagon , Nate Wooley and with Darcy James Argue ’s Secret Society ( Infernal Machines 2009). He performed with Dave Ballou , Roy Campbell and Tony Malaby at a tribute concert for Joe Maneri in 2013 . At the Down Beat Critics Poll 2020 he was the winner as a rising star in the baritone saxophone category.

Ideal Bread: The Ideal Bread (KMB Jazz, 2007)
Ideal Bread: Transit - Vol. 2 of the Music of Steve Lacy ( Cuneiform Records ), with Reuben Radding
Josh Sinton / Trio Caveat: Introspective Athletics / Pine Barren (2011)
Nate Wooley Quintet: (Put Your) Hands Together ( Clean Feed Records , 2011), with Eivind Opsvik , Harris Eisenstadt , Matt Moran
Anthony Braxton: Creative Music Orchestra (NYC) 2011 (New Braxton House, 2012)
Slow Learner (Iluso, 2017), with Jason Ajemian , Chad Taylor
Signal Gain (2015), with Dominic Lash, Ingrid Laubrock, Kyoko Kitamura, Nate Wooley, Alex Ward

personal data
SURNAME	Sinton, Josh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz and improvisation musician (baritone saxophone, bass clarinet)
DATE OF BIRTH	October 29, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Massachusetts