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Jazz
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| Descriptive "tags": |
jazz • piano • hard bop • piano trio • b class
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| Decades Active: |
1960s
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2000s
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| Links online: |
Wikipedia
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Biography
10 April 1927, New York City, New York, USA, d. 24 January 1998, New York City, New York, USA. Bishop began playing piano as a child, encouraged by his father, a Jamaican songwriter whose ‘Swing, Brother, Swing’ was recorded by, among others, Billie Holiday with Count Basie. During the 40s Bishop’s musical direction was dictated by his interest in the work of Bud Powell and he played with numerous small groups, including those led by Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Oscar Pettiford. A period of drug addiction interrupted Bishop’s career in the 50s, but the following decade proved successful both musically and in terms of conquering his habit. He worked with Curtis Fuller and also led his own small groups, with which he recorded. He resumed his musical studies too, and after relocating in Los Angeles at the end of the 60s he took up teaching. In the late 70s he was back on the east coast, playing and teaching. Rarely performing outside the New...
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