Joe Bishop

Joseph Joe Bishop ( born November 27, 1907 in Monticello (Arkansas ), † May 12 1976 in Houston ) was an American jazz arranger, composer and flugelhorn player.

Joe Bishop learned in his childhood and youth piano, trumpet and tuba; He also played later flugelhorn and Mellophone. He studied at Hendrix College and had his first professional job as a musician in 1927 at the Louisiana Ramblers, also occurred in Mexico. He then worked at Mart Britt, Al Katz and Austin Wylie before then from 1930 to 1935 member of the Isham Jones Orchestra was. In 1933 he wrote with Gordon Jenkins Blue Prelude for Isham Jones. The mid-1930s he was among the founding members of the Woody Herman band, however, forced him to tuberculosis in 1940 for the temporary withdrawal from the group. Herman put it then the mid-1940s as an arranger on; his compositions and arrangements appeared on numerous albums by the band. These included, inter alia, the arrangement to Woodchopper 's Ball (1939 ) and his compositions and Blue Prelude Blue Flame, the signature tune of the Herman band in 1941. From 1942 Bishop continued to work as a freelance musician in the studios, but withdrew for health reasons in the 1950s from the music business. He opened a shop in Saranac Lake (New York) and was later moved back to Texas.

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• Jazz trumpeter
• Jazz horn player
• Arranger
• American musician
• Born 1907
• Died in 1976
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