Joe Rushton (November 7, 1907 – March 2, 1964) ^[1] was an American jazz bass saxophonist.

He was born in Evanston, Illinois, United States. ^[1] Aside from Adrian Rollini, Rushton is one of the best-known jazz performers to concentrate on bass saxophone, which he played from 1928. ^[2] Prior to this, he had played clarinet and all of the other standard saxophone varieties, and he occasionally recorded with these other instruments. ^[1] He worked with Ted Weems, Jimmy McPartland, Bud Freeman, Floyd O'Brien, Benny Goodman (1942–43), Horace Heidt (1943-45), and Red Nichols's Five Pennies, which he joined in 1947 and played with into the early 1960s. ^[1] He recorded six sides for Jump Records in 1945/47, but otherwise appears on record only as a sideman. ^[2]

He died in March 1964, in San Francisco, California, ^[2] at the age of 56. ^[1]

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