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A performing/recording designer and educator located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Andrew Bishop absolutely avoids a rigidly idiomatic method of jazz. The saxophonist/clarinetist’s wide-ranging perspective offers led him to traverse stylistic limitations in his personal projects while developing innovative alliances with collaborators over the jazz range, from Midwestern post-boppers to Brooklyn-based …

Although jazz drummer Gerald Cleaver continues to be known in the Detroit area as an excellent musician and educator because the early ’90s, he had not been so well-known to listeners beyond the Midwest until an explosion of recordings released beginning in 1999 brought his effective and tasteful drumming towards …

A consistently intriguing creative jazz musician using a fertile imagination, deep polystylistic knowledge, and impressive techie chops, Ann Arbor, Michigan-based multi-reedist and educator Andrew Bishop reaches house on-stage, in the documenting studio room, or in the class. The current College or university of Michigan associate teacher of jazz and modern …