Josh Arcoleo is a London-born British jazz saxophonist and instrumentalist. Born in 1989, he grows up in a musical family and begins studying saxophone at the age of thirteen with Pee Wee Ellis.

At sixteen, he starts touring with Pee Wee Ellis in the Assembly and Still Black Still Proud bands. At eighteen, he gains a place at the Royal Academy of Music, where he graduates from the jazz course with first-class honours. During this period, he wins the 2011 Yamaha Parliamentary Jazz Scholarship and the Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize, which brings a recording contract with Edition Records for his debut album. He also receives awards from the EMI Music Sound Foundation and MBF Young Talent.

Arcoleo performs at venues including the Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican, Blue Note Milan and Ronnie Scott’s, and appears at festivals in Slovakia, Finland, Denmark, Holland, Germany, Spain and the UK, including Derby, Hull, Cheltenham, Edinburgh and Glastonbury.

He is associated with Snowpoet, Native Dancer, Liran Donin's 1000 Boats and Jasper Høiby’s Planet B.