Joshua Smith is a jazz saxophonist living in West Marin, in the San Francisco, Bay Area...  Smith began gigging around his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio at age 14.
 Early on, he  became well versed in straight ahead jazz, though playing with some of the  area’s best jazz  players. During this time Joshua performed with and learned from an older  generation of  Cleveland’s stalwart jazzmen.

 Joshua has performed throughout the U.S. and Europe  playing jazz both as a band leader  and sideman. He’s played countless concerts,  restaurants, and private events (weddings,  parties) in all varieties and incarnations.Since moving to San Francisco in 2004, Joshua has  been playing with many of that area's finest jazz musicians.
 He plays regularly at jazz venues in the Bay Area and has provided music for private  functions at mainstay locations such as SF City Hall, the Legion of Honor, The De Young  Museum, the Asian Art Museum, etc. Joshua's jazz groups (quartet, trio, duo) have a wide  ranging repertoire of well-loved (as well as more obscure) jazz standards and straight-  ahead jazz classics.

 His attentiveness and ability to create the ideal musical atmosphere are  key to Smith  providing the perfectly appropriate musical backdrop for any event. Weddings, corporate  parties, bar/bat mitzvahs, birthdays, and holiday celebrations are all familiar terrain for  Smith’s jazz groups. His sidemen are experienced jazz players, culled from the  best of the  Bay Area jazz scene. Joshua has performed at many premiere modern jazz  venues and  festivals such as:

 SF Yoshi's, 'The North Sea Jazz Festival', 'The Blue Note Jazz Festival', '  The  Glastonbury Festival', Chicago's 'Empty Bottle', 'The Knitting Factory' in NYC,  'Teatro  Fondamenta Nuove' in Venice, 'The Outpost' in New Mexico, The Detroit  Institute of Art,  'The Tri-C Jazzfest', 'The Louisville Jazz Festival', etc.