 During the 1970s, Rusch played drums in workshops with Jaki Byard and Cedar Walton.He wrote for the magazines "Down Beat", "Jazz Journal" and "Jazz Forum" in the 1970s before founding "Cadence Magazine" in 1975.He founded two record labels, Cadence Jazz (in 1980) and CIMP (in 1995), and produced or oversaw the release of hundreds of jazz releases; among those musicians he has produced are Bill Dixon, Chet Baker, Glenn Spearman, Ernie Krivda, Ivo Perelman, Noah Howard, Dominic Duval, Steuart Liebig, Cecil Taylor, Fred Hess, Anthony Braxton, Bill Barron, Paul Smoker, and Steve Swell.