{"id":353,"date":"2013-02-15T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/about-todd\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T15:44:11","slug":"about-todd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/about-todd\/","title":{"rendered":"About Todd"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Istanbul doing cymbal business, 2022<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Todd Bishop<\/b> (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<\/strong><\/a>, and for independent release. Since 2009 he has done\u00a0four\u00a0European tours with his jazz quartet, the Todd Bishop Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Todd also sells the wonderful Cymbal & Gong cymbals, a Portland company, with cymbals manufactured in Turkey, through his site Cymbalistic<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He studied classical percussion with Charles Dowd at the University of Oregon, and, under scholarship, jazz studies with multiple Grammy award winning drummer Gregg Field<\/a> (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.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Performing with pianist Brittany Anjou in at the Ballard Jazz Festival in Seattle, 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

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References:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cynthia Plank<\/a> \u2014 band director, Beaumont Middle School (Portland, OR)
Molly Scholz<\/a> \u2014 music director, Riverdale Elementary School (Portland, OR)
Tyson Sterne<\/a> \u2014 band director, Ft. Vancouver High School (Vancouver, WA)
Tyler Benedict<\/a> \u2014 band director, Heritage High School (Vancouver, WA)
Mary-Sue Tobin<\/a> \u2014 music instructor (Portland, OR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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