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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 …