Josh Sinton is an American jazz and improvisation musician, specializing in baritone saxophone and bass clarinet. He grew up in the Pine Barrens, New Jersey, and played piano, trombone, and clarinet before switching to alto saxophone in high school. Sinton studied composition and ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago, working with Ari Brown and Ken Vandermark, and later continued at the New England Conservatory under Steve Lacy, Ran Blake, Jerry Bergonzi, and Dominique Eade. His career gained prominence in the mid-2000s through the Steve Lacy project Ideal Bread with Kirk Knuffke, Adam Hopkins, and Tomas Fujiwara. Sinton has also collaborated with Anthony Braxton, Jon Irabagon, Nate Wooley, and Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society. In 2020, he was named Rising Star in the baritone saxophone category by the Down Beat Critics Poll.
