We’re on light posting for a few days here, clearly, while I’m focused on some other stuff. LIKE MY 2015 EUROPE TOUR; it looks like we’ll be on the road from approximately December 2-21, 2015. […]
Category: Todd Bishop
Transcription: Todd Bishop — Black Monk
This week I was working on something really narcissistic: a transcription of one of my own performances. I was just listening to some of my old rehearsal/gig recordings and thought, hey, I’d like to figure […]
Playing in Seattle tonight…
Hey, if you’re in Seattle, come on down to Egan’s in Ballard tonight— my group will be playing at 10:30, as part of the Ballard Jazz Festival. The band includes Richard Cole, Jasnam Daya Singh […]
2013 Book of the Blog now available!
Now I remember why it takes me so long to do these things; it’s a lot of work, even when 98% of the content is already written. But! The 2013 Book of the Blog is […]
2013 tour posters
All right, the posters for my upcoming Europe (well, Belgium, plus the outer tip of Germany and Luxembourg) tour are done! Here are the shows, once again, with times: 9:00, Tuesday, Nov. 12 Hot Club […]
My art… on pillows!
Here’s a random thing— my sister, Christy Bishop, an interior designer, is releasing a line of high-end printed pillows, and is including some of my old (c. 1997-2001) works on paper in her art. So […]
2013 Europe tour
Hey, my 2013 Europe tour, my fourth, is coming up in November— exactly four weeks from now. We’ll be playing music from my record Little Played Little Bird, the music of Ornette Coleman, and some […]
Another best of 2012 list
Another Best of 2012 list for my CD Little Played Little Bird, this time on the Bird Is The Worm blog, written by eMusic contributor Dave Sumner. We’re in the number 12 slot: So, take […]
LPLB makes a best of 2012 list
Dan McClenaghan at All About Jazz has included my record Little Played Little Bird on his Best Releases of 2012 list. He had this to say: “Drummer Todd Bishop is an underground treasure. He doesn’t […]
New CSD! book: 100 Grooves
OK, here it is, just in time for Christmas— our new book, 100 Grooves – vol. 1, is now available for purchase. It contains over 100 transcribed drum grooves by people like Elvin Jones, Ed […]
It’s tour time
UPDATE: Late add- another gig in Brussels on Friday, Nov. 9. My partner Casey Scott and I are flying to Brussels tomorrow to make her a record (for the Topsy Turvy label), and to do […]
Show TONIGHT
This Wednesday [Update: That’s tonight], at the Secret Society Ballroom in Portland I’ll be playing music from my new record, Little Played Little Bird (which you can listen to, and more importantly purchase in the […]