Joshua Smith is a saxophonist/multi instrumentalist residing in the San Francisco Bay area. He has been playing for the past 20 years with a Who's Who of creative music, starting in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio at the age of 16 as a member of the avant garde jazz trio led by drummer Leland Scotty Davis. Joshua has made his mark In the arena of avant-garde jazz and forward thinking jazz through performing with players like Joe Maneri, Cuong Vu, (of The Pat Metheny Group), Chris Jonas, trumpet legend Nate Wooley, Trevor Dunn, Todd Sickafoose, Myra Melford, Ben Goldberg, and drummer Carmen Castaldi in addition to many other notable players.