Andrew Bishop

A performing/recording artist and educator based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Andrew Bishop utterly avoids a rigidly idiomatic approach to jazz. The saxophonist/clarinetist's wide-ranging perspective has led him to traverse stylistic boundaries in his own projects while forming creative alliances with collaborators across the jazz spectrum, from Midwestern post-boppers to Brooklyn-based avant-gardists and creative improvisers. In his career to date, Bishop has been as likely to play a straight-ahead set on the stage of Ann Arbor's (sadly defunct) Firefly Club as freewheeling improv...