Wallace Bishop

Wallace Henry " Bish " Bishop, also Wally Bishop ( born February 17, 1906 in Chicago; † 2 May 1986 as Hilversum ) was an American drummer of the Hot Jazz and Swing.

Wallace Bishop began as a teenager playing the drums and studied with Jimmy Bertrand. His professional career began in 1926 at Art Simms and his orchestra in Milwaukee; During this time he also played with Jelly Roll Morton, Bernie Young, Hughie Swift, Louis Armstrong, Richard M. Jones and Tommy Dorsey. From 1928 to 1930 he worked at Erskine Tate and the following year in the Earl Hines Orchestra, of which he remained a member until 1937. In the 1940s he played with Jimmie Noone (1941 ), Coleman Hawkins ( 1943), Don Redman, Phil Moore, Foots Thomas, John Kirby ( 1946), Sy Oliver, Sammy Price and Billy Kyle.

While touring in France in 1949 with Buck Clayton - in which he also 1946/7 was decided - Bishop on the continent to remain where he worked with his own and other bands. Among other things, he had the early 1950s own combo in the Netherlands ( with Rob Pronk, Rob Madna ). He took with musicians such as Bill Coleman ( in Paris), Don Byas ( in Paris), Willie "The Lion" Smith (Paris), Ben Webster, Hans Koller, Kid Ory (Tour in Sweden / Germany 1956), Pia Beck, Kid Dynamite, Milt Buckner ( Buckner and Earl Hines with it in 1967 /68 to tour ), Buddy Tate, Rosetta Tharpe and the Sammy Price Trio, but also with T- Bone Walker, with whom he was on tour in 1968. As a leader Bishop had only in 1950 on two songs that he recorded in a trio for the French " Chant du Monde " label; otherwise, he served in the 1970s as a sideman on recordings of "Black & Blue" label and was with Champion Jack Dupree on tour.

He also played the flute.