Bishop performing in Brussels, 2012

Todd Bishop (b. 1967) has been performing, teaching, and recording professionally in the US and internationally since 1985. He has led jazz, avant-garde and indie rock groups and produced seven CDs of his original music for Seattle’s Origin Records, and for independent release. Since 2009 he has done four European tours with his jazz quartet, the Todd Bishop Group.

Bishop is also a prolific drumming writer, author of CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!, a leading drumming web site since 2011, as well as seven print books, and a further seven e-books of drum transcriptions. He has had three articles published in Drum! Magazine. 

He 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, in 1986, the famous 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 leading rudimental specialist Alan Keown.

2010 Drum! Magazine piece

References:

Cynthia Plank — band director, Beaumont Middle School (Portland, OR)
Molly Scholz — music director, Riverdale Elementary School (Portland, OR)

Tyson Sterne — band director, Ft. Vancouver High School (Vancouver, WA)
Tyler Benedict — band director, Heritage High School (Vancouver, WA)
Mary-Sue Tobin — music instructor (Portland, OR)
Fred S. — student (Portland, OR)
Denise G. — parent of student (Lake Oswego, OR)
Felicia R. — parent of student (Beaverton, OR)