# Joe Bishop

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{{Short description|American jazz musician}}
{{For|the entertainer|Joey Bishop}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name             = Joe Bishop
| birth_date       = November 27, 1907
| birth_place      = [Monticello, Arkansas](/source/Monticello%2C_Arkansas), U.S.
| death_date       = May 12, 1976 (aged 68)
| death_place      = [Houston](/source/Houston), [Texas](/source/Texas), U.S.
| genre            = [Jazz](/source/Jazz)
| instruments      = {{flatlist|
*Tuba
*piano
}}
}}

'''Joe Bishop''' (November 27, 1907 – May 12, 1976) was an American [jazz](/source/jazz) multi-instrumentalist and composer.

== Early life and education ==
Bishop was born in [Monticello, Arkansas](/source/Monticello%2C_Arkansas). He learned piano, trumpet, and tuba when he was young, and also played [flugelhorn](/source/flugelhorn) and [mellophone](/source/mellophone). He attended [Hendrix College](/source/Hendrix_College) and played professionally with the Louisiana Ramblers in 1927, including in [Mexico](/source/Mexico).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Joe Bishop Biography, Songs, & Albums |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/joe-bishop-mn0000118242/biography |access-date=2022-06-28 |website=AllMusic |language=en}}</ref>

== Career ==
Bishop played with [Mart Britt](/source/Mart_Britt), [Al Katz](/source/Al_Katz), and [Austin Wylie](/source/Austin_Wylie) before joining [Isham Jones](/source/Isham_Jones)'s band for five years. He was a founding member of [Woody Herman](/source/Woody_Herman)'s band in the 1930s, but he contracted [tuberculosis](/source/tuberculosis) in 1940 and had to leave the group. He was rehired by Herman as a staff arranger later in the 1940s, and his arrangements and compositions were recorded frequently by Herman, appearing on some 50 of Herman's albums. As a performer, Bishop played with [Cow Cow Davenport](/source/Cow_Cow_Davenport) and [Jimmy Gordon](/source/Jimmy_Gordon_(musician))'s Vip Vop Band, but retired from studio work due to his health in the 1950s. He quit music and opened a store in [Saranac Lake, New York](/source/Saranac_Lake%2C_New_York), and later retired to [Texas](/source/Texas).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Feather |first1=Leonard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B4EjDgAAQBAJ&dq=Joe+Bishop+jazz+texas&pg=PA61 |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz |last2=Gitler |first2=Ira |date=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |isbn=978-0-19-532000-8 |language=en}}</ref> he died in Houston Texas on May 12 1976.

Bishop's compositions include "Midnight Blue", "[Woodchopper's Ball](/source/Woodchopper's_Ball)", and "Blue Prelude" (with [Gordon Jenkins](/source/Gordon_Jenkins)),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Office |first=Library of Congress Copyright |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HkMhAQAAIAAJ&dq=Joe+Bishop+Lawrence+Welk&pg=PA936 |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series |date=1972 |language=en}}</ref> and his work has been covered by musicians as diverse as [Ten Years After](/source/Ten_Years_After) and [Lawrence Welk](/source/Lawrence_Welk).

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/108488 Joe Bishop recordings] at the [Discography of American Historical Recordings](/source/Discography_of_American_Historical_Recordings).
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Category:20th-century American pianists
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