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-lsb- http://www.cadencebuilding.com cadencebuilding.com -rsb- new york cadence jazz , cimp bob rusch non_performing_personnel 03 april 1943 jazz bob rusch
 robert d. rusch critic , producer
bob rusch

bob rusch -lrb- born 3 april 1943 , new york -rrb- 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 .
he wrote for the magazines `` down beat '' , `` jazz journal '' and `` jazz forum '' in the 1970s before founding `` cadence magazine '' in 1975 .
he founded two record labels , cadence jazz -lrb- in 1980 -rrb- and cimp -lrb- in 1995 -rrb- , and produced or oversaw the release of hundreds of jazz releases ; among those musicians 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 schomburg center for research in black culture .
from 1965-1973 , rusch was a teacher at woodward school , a private elementary school in the fort greene section of brooklyn .
on june 4 , 2014 , three separate articles appeared in `` the wall street journal '' accusing rusch of `` sexually abusing female students as young as 12 years old during the late 1960 's and early 1970 's . ''
rusch was interviewed by the newspaper , and in the articles `` rusch acknowledged that he had sex with multiple young students ... ' i accept involvement in some of the things that went on , not all of them , and to that extent i am embarrassed and remorseful and i have been for the better part of 41 years , ' said mr. rusch , who is now 71 years old . '
i carry a lot of guilt . ' ''
