More music in that 90s zone, from my personal archives. This really captures the spirit of my whole attitude towards playing the drums for that decade. Recorded in 2000, I think, when my group Flatland was […]
Category: Todd’s music
Jorge Rossy is stealing my stuff!
UPDATE: Oh, Crisis by Freddie Hubbard is also similar. Here’s a funny one for you— check out the tune Post-Catholic Waltz from this 2021 recording by Jorge Rossy. Now compare with my tune Headlights from this […]
Hell of notes
I want to talk about my own playing a little bit. Here’s an item from a little free-jazz show with Portland musicians Ryan Meagher and Noah Simpson a couple of nights ago: What is going […]
MY NAME IS PABLO PICASSO
Digging through my old cassettes I found this rather hilarious avant-garde thing I composed in 1991 on a then-fancy HR-16 drum machine, doing with it things entirely unintended by the technicians at Alesis. It’s called MY […]
Figure and fills: Rover
Here’s a page of drum orchestrations and fills based on a rhythmic figure from the tune Rover, on my album Travelogue, along with a practice loop sampled from it. The fills/orchestrations start very simply, building […]
The way I used to do things
I’ve been listening to some old rehearsal cassettes and demos and whatnot, and my God, I used to be an animal. This is an unreleased track, a cover of an Albert Ayler tune, from my […]
Reed interpretation: triplets with breaks
I don’t why it took me over 30 years to figure this out— I’m always looking for ways to simplify things, to make them more playable. This is an alternative to a very common, popular, […]
2015 Europe tour
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. […]
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 […]
What’s going on: my recording of Ornette Coleman’s Mothers of the Veil
While I was traveling recently, I got a note from a reader who had very kindly purchased my CD Little Played Little Bird, the music of Ornette Coleman, asking for some analysis and explanation of […]
Groove o’ the day: Todd Bishop — The Secret Agent
I’ve got a bunch of unfinished stuff on deck, so we’ll just keep doing GOTDs until I can get it together and be a writer. And what the hell, let’s do one of me. The […]
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 […]