Sorry for that graphic. I promise, no more AI slop. Not much more. Here is more video— I’m recording lots of my practicing right now, as I get my video act together. Here I’m playing […]
Category: Todd’s music
Warming up with Betty Davis…
As you can see, WordPress now has an AI slop generator as part of their suite of tools. Something else, isn’t it. If you hate it as much as I do, fill out this form […]
I transcribe myself
Please forgive the slow posting here— lots of work going on with site other than just writing for it. As soon as I have my act together there, we’ll be back to a normal pace […]
The Wizard
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 […]
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 […]