Saxophonist · Composer · Recording Artist · Actor · Creative Director
Logan Richardson is an American saxophonist, composer, recording artist, actor and creative director whose work moves across music, film, technology, design and interdisciplinary art. Born in Kansas City and based in Los Angeles, Richardson has developed an international body of work spanning acclaimed recordings, original compositions, global performances, collaborative projects and experimental research. As founder and Creative Director of Logan Richardson Studios, his practice extends beyond the stage into instrument design, creative technology and Bōjutsu R&D—connecting sound, physical objects and research as parts of a single creative language.
Logan Richardson is an American saxophonist, composer, recording artist, actor and creative director whose work moves across contemporary music, improvisation, composition, film, technology and design. Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, and based in Los Angeles, Richardson has built an international career defined by an individual musical language and a practice that continually extends beyond conventional boundaries of genre and discipline.
As a recording artist and composer, Richardson has released an extensive body of work as a leader while contributing to projects across jazz, contemporary music and popular culture. His career has included collaborations with artists including Pat Metheny, Jason Moran, Nasheet Waits, Joe Chambers, Ambrose Akinmusire and Gerald Clayton, among others. His work appears on multiple Grammy-nominated recordings, including projects with Clayton, while his broader recording practice has brought him into creative environments extending well beyond jazz. Richardson’s own projects—including SHIFT, blues PEOPLE, LO HA WATTS, and the evolving interdisciplinary performance concept A Living Score—reflect a career centered not simply on stylistic fluency, but on the development of a distinct artistic language.
Richardson’s work has been presented internationally across concert halls, festivals, clubs, museums and educational institutions. Alongside an extensive performance career throughout the United States and Europe, he has taught, lectured and presented work in environments including California Institute of the Arts, USC, UCLA, The New School, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Siena Jazz, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through A Living Score, Richardson brings together saxophone, piano, electronics, environmental sound, improvisation and evolving technologies to create performances conceived as living, responsive compositions rather than fixed works.
His practice now extends increasingly into film, instrument development and creative research. Richardson portrays saxophonist Don Byas in the feature film Miles & Juliette, directed by Bill Pohlad and produced by Mick Jagger. As founder and Creative Director of Logan Richardson Studios, he has also developed an independent platform encompassing recording, publishing, physical releases, creative production and design. Through Bōjutsu R&D Labs LA, Richardson is developing experimental approaches to saxophone acoustics, resonator systems, mouthpiece design and instrument technology, while his BŌ instrument work extends that research into the physical relationship between player, instrument and sound.
Across these disciplines, Richardson’s work is connected by a consistent premise: sound is not an isolated medium, but part of a larger system of composition, technology, physical design and lived experience. His practice continues to move between the recording studio, stage, screen, laboratory and workshop—treating each as a different site for the same creative investigation.
