Wallace Bishop

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Wallace Henry "Bish" Bishop , also Wally Bishop , (born February 17, 1906 in Chicago , † May 2, 1986 in Hilversum ) was an American drummer of hot jazz and swing .

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Wallace Bishop began playing drums as a teenager and studied with Jimmy Bertrand . He began his professional career in 1926 with Art Simms and its orchestra in Milwaukee ; During this time he also played with Jelly Roll Morton , Bernie Young , Hughie Swift , Louis Armstrong , Richard M. Jones and Tommy Dorsey . From 1928 to 1930 he worked with Erskine Tate and the following year with the Earl Hines Orchestra , of which he remained until 1937. In the 1940s he played with Jimmie Noone (1941), Coleman Hawkins (1943), Don Redman , Phil Moore , Foots Thomas , John Kirby (1946), Sy Oliver , Sammy Price and Billy Kyle .

During a tour in France in 1949 with Buck Clayton - with whom he was also in 1946/7 - Bishop decided to stay on the continent, where he worked with his own and other bands. Among other things, he had his own combo in the Netherlands in the early 1950s (with Rob Pronk , Rob Madna ). He took part with musicians such as Bill Coleman (in Paris), Don Byas (in Paris), Willie The Lion Smith (Paris), Ben Webster , Hans Koller , Kid Ory (Tour in Sweden / Germany 1956), Pia Beck , Kid Dynamite , Milt Buckner (with Buckner and Earl Hines he was on tour in 1967/68), Buddy Tate , Rosetta Tharpe and the Sammy Price Trio, but also with T-Bone Walker , with whom he toured in 1968. As a band leader, Bishop only appeared in 1950 on two tracks, which he recorded as a trio for the French Chant du Monde label; otherwise he acted as a sideman in the 1970s when recording the "Black & Blue" label and was on tour with champion Jack Dupree .

He also played the flute.

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