Origin Artist

Todd Bishop



...meticulously molding musical soundscapes that can alternately seduce you to sleep, get you stoned, and make you feel all slinky and sexy. Brilliance without words.
- ANODYNE

Todd Bishop has been performing and teaching professionally in Portland, OR, the west, and internationally since 1985. He has led jazz, avant-garde and indie rock groups and produced six CDs of original music for Origin Records. With his multi-layered, organic style, he is a compelling musician, and has thrilled audiences with visceral performances owing as much to the influence of Keith Moon or Olatunji as to the jazz masters.

Bishop studied classical percussion with Charles Dowd at the University of Oregon, and, under scholarship, jazz studies with Gregg Field (Count Basie) and John Thomas (Woody Herman, Chick Corea) at the University of Southern California. He also completed six national tours with DCI-affilliated drum and bugle corps, including the famous 1986 Santa Clara Vanguard, which finished second nationally that year. He was instructed by drum corps greats Ralph Hardimon, George Tuthill, and Fred Sanford, as well as marching specialist Alan Keown.

Also accomplished in visual media, he is a prolific photographer of Pacific NW musicians, has returned several times to Italy to photograph the city of Rome, and is one of the major providers of photographic imagery for Origin Records. As a painter, Bishop creates richly textured abstract landscapes echoing Oregon farm country and wilderness in oils. He is represented by the Provenance gallery (Eugene, OR), and his work has been collected by buyers on four continents. He is also the creator of the Skulli and My Sweet Fiend character designs, which are currently selling well in several large chains in North America and Japan.

Presently, he writes daily for his blog Cruise Ship Drummer (http://shipdrummer.blogspot.com/), performs around the Northwest, and tours Europe with his band at least once a year.


RECORDINGS FEATURING Todd Bishop


Todd Bishop
Origin 82664

Todd Bishop
Origin 82612

Todd Bishop Pop Art 4
Origin 82530

Lower Monumental
Origin 82441

Flatland
Origin 82374

Flatland
Origin 82362

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For more information about Todd Bishop, please visit: http://shipdrummer.blogspot.com/.

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