August 2010
1 post
June 2010
2 posts
Jeb Bishop Trio at Hungry Brain, June 6: new CD!
On Sunday, June 6, the Jeb Bishop Trio with Frank Rosaly, drums, and Jason Roebke, bass, will be performing at the Hungry Brain in Chicago, starting around 10 PM. The show is a celebration of the release of the brand-new CD by the trio, entitled 2009. More on the CD in this space very soon!
April 2010
1 post
Chicago Sound Map 2010
On Saturday, April 10, I’ll be presenting my compositional contribution to the 2010 edition of the Chicago Sound Map project. The concert is at 10 PM at Heaven Gallery.
February 2010
4 posts
Neil Tesser writes about The Engines
in The Examiner. Thank you, Neil!
Jeb Bishop Trio at Elastic, Feb. 25
The trio (see two posts down) will be at Elastic on Feb. 25, sharing a bill with the Nick Mazzarella Trio. 10 PM showtime.
News about The Engines: gigs and tour
Upcoming Tuesday night gigs by The Engines at Elastic, 2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago:
16 February 2010 23 February 2010 2 March 2010 9 March 2010
THE ENGINES 2010 EUROPEAN TOUR 21 March : Zaandam, Netherlands | Serah Artisan 22 March : Enschede, Netherlands | Jazzpodium Drienerlo 24 March : Brest, France | Penn-Ar-Jazz 26 March : Poitiers, France | Carré Bleu 27...
November 2009
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August 2009
1 post
WatchHere’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,...
July 2009
1 post
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...
June 2009
3 posts
WatchFrom 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.
More new audio: the trombone section of the Peter...
May 2009
5 posts
New audio
up over at my website:
a set from March 29, 2009, at Chicago’s Hungry Brain, with Chicago saxophonist Keefe Jackson and Berlin pianist Michael Wilhelmi.
WatchA bit of the Fred Anderson/Tim Daisy duo set at the Sugar Maple / Okkadisk fest.
April 2009
16 posts
My composition Fractures, from the April 28...
A track from the April 27 trio recording session:...
WatchThe Thing (Paal Nilssen-Love, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, Mats Gustafsson), last night at Hideout.
WatchWilbert de Joode and Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, last night at the Hideout.
News on the recordings front
1. The new CD by Lucky 7s, called Pluto Junkyard, has now been officially released on the Clean Feed label (though it might take it a minute still to show up on their website!). You can hear some samples over at co-leader Jeff Albert’s site.
2. Tomorrow and the next day, I’ll be recording what will hopefully be a new CD of my tunes with the new Jeb Bishop Trio, with Jason Roebke and...
WatchL to R: Nick Broste, Keefe Jackson, Guillermo Gregorio. From the first set last night at Elastic.
A trombone solo from March 20, 2009, at Wilhelmina...
Fragment of a new tune by Dave Rempis, from last...