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Rusty was born and raised in Livermore California and is the youngest of three children. He inherited his love of jazz from his father, and began playing alto saxophone in elementary school. He switched to drums in junior high and played drums and percussion throughout junior high and high school. Rusty studied symphonic percussion, timpani and mallets with Arthur Storch at Cal State Hayward, and holds a BA in Percussion Performance. During his college years Rusty also studied electronic music composition with Scot Gresham-Lancaster. He studied drumset with John Freixas, Ray Merill, David Garibaldi and Carl Allen.
Rusty performs as a freelance jazz drummer and symphonic percussionist throughout the Bay Area, regularly playing in the Jean Repetto Trio, the Cecil Wells Trio, the house band with Pascal Bokar and Dr. Karlton Hester at Savanna Jazz in San Francisco and is currently forming an avant-funk-jazz collective. He is single and lives in Oakland, California. |
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