Jazz Articles about David Slusser

David Slusser: Rubber City

by Mark Corroto
May 1, 2002

Ohio expatriates David Slusser and Ralph Carney pay tribute to their rust belt beginnings on the Akron-inspired Rubber City. Slusser recorded these live quartet performances in the San Francisco Bay Area, with guests dropping in to add flavorful touches. Slusser, Carney, and drummer Chris Ackerman all barely escaped Ohio without gross disfigurements from industrial accidents to make music on the West Coast. Rounding out Slusser’s quartet is bassist Bill Fairbanks, who is not from Ohio, but once received a death-threat ...