Jeb Bishop

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Jeb Bishop, mœrs festival 2010

Jeb Bishop (* 1962 in Raleigh (North Carolina) ) is an American trombonist as well as bass and electric guitarist specializing in creative jazz and new improvisation music .

Live and act

Bishop grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and studied classical trombone at Northwestern University , then engineering and philosophy at North Carolina State University . He then continued his philosophy studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , the University of Arizona , Loyola University and in Belgium at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven .

In the 1980s he played as a bass and electric guitarist in rock bands in his hometown. He moved to Chicago in the 1990s , turned to jazz , and played bass guitar in the noise jazz band The Flying Luttenbachers and in an avant-garde formation led by Ken Vandermark , The Unheard Music Quartet . In the mid-1990s he performed both as a trombonist and as an electric guitarist with the Vandermark Five . He was also a member of another group from Vandermark, the Formation School Days . He has also worked as a session musician on recordings of the Chicago post rock scene, such as Stereolab , Jim O'Rourke , Gastr del Sol and The Sea and Cake .

Around the year 2000 he concentrated exclusively on playing the trombone due to a tinnitus and founded his own trio, which included bassist Kent Kessler and drummer Tim Mulvenna . The trio recorded two albums for Okka Disk , for which he composed almost all of the material. The second album Aftermmons was created with guest guitarist Jeff Parker.

Bishop has also worked with Daniele D'Agaro ( Chicago Overtones ; 2004), in Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet, Joe McPhee and Sebi Tramontana , Tony Bevan and John Edwards . In Chicago he also plays regularly with Fred Lonberg-Holm , Michael Zerang , Josh Abrams and Hamid Drake as well as with Harris Eisenstadt and since 2006 as a member of the Globe Unity Orchestra . With Jeff Albert he is co-leader of the Lucky 7's ( Junkyard Pluto ).

Discographic notes

Albums under your own name
  • Jeb Bishop Trio (Okkadisc, 1999)
  • Aftermoons (Okkadisc, 2001)
  • Old Shoulders (Relay, 2012), with Tim Daisy
  • Re-Collect (2019), with Russ Johnson , Frank Rosaly, Jason Roebke
  • Jeb Bishop Centrifugal Trio (2020), with Antonio Borghini , Michael Griener
Albums as sideman or duo and trio partner

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personal data
SURNAME Bishop, Jeb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Raleigh, North Carolina