Jeb Bishop

Nov 3

I think this is what the Internet calls Translation Fail.

Aug 24

Here’s some footage of an interactive musical sculpture I saw at the Ars Electronica museum in Linz, Austria, back in May. The piece is called Quartet, by Jeff Lieberman and Dan Paluska. The viewer can input a melody via computer, and the sculpture then ‘improvises’ music based on the inputted notes. It involves ping-pong-like balls that are fired into the air and then land on the ‘marimba’ bars, plus rotating wine glasses filled with water that are made to sing by mechanical fingers, plus some robotic percussion.

(Posted with the permission of the artists.)

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Jul 2

Upcoming performances in Europe

July 4: at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival, with Paal Nilssen-Love, drums; Tobias Delius, reeds; Johan Berthling, bass.

July 9: at Zaal 100, Amsterdam, with Jorrit Dijkstra, reeds; Frank Rosaly, drums; Jason Roebke, bass.

July 10: Jorrit Dijkstra’s Pillow Circles project at North Sea Jazz Festival.

July 11: Joe McPhee, Johannes Bauer, Per-Ake Holmlander, Jeb Bishop: various trombones and other brass, in a tribute to Clifford Thornton, at Nickelsdorf (Austria) Konfrontationen.

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Jun 18

From last summer’s concert at Millennium Park in Chicago by the expanded version of Mike Reed’s People Places and Things: Mike Reed, drums; Greg Ward, alto; Tim Haldeman, tenor; Jason Roebke, bass; with Julian Priester, trombone; Ira Sullivan, tenor; Art Hoyle, trumpet; and me.

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Jun 16

A night in Geneva

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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

More new audio: the trombone section of the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, recorded live at the Hungry Brain, Dec. 2, 2007. Jeb Bishop, Per-Ake Holmlander, Joe McPhee, Johannes Bauer: slide and valve trombones.

Under Joe’s leadership, this group will appear at the Nickelsdorf (Austria) Konfrontationen festival on July 11, 2009, in a tribute to Clifford Thornton.

Thanks to Anne from Stavanger for the recording.

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May 13