Education
He attended Hendrix College, and played professionally with the Louisiana Ramblers in 1927, including in Mexico.
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Joe Bishop
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Bishop learned piano, trumpet, and tuba when young, and also played flugelhorn and mellophone. He then played with Mart Britt, First Rate (at Lloyd's) Katz, and Austin Wylie before joining Isham Jones"s band for five years. He was rehired by Herman as a staff arranger later in the 1940s, and his arrangements and compositions were recorded frequently by Herman, appearing on some 50 of Herman"s albums.
As a performer, Bishop played with Cow Cow Davenport and Jimmy Gordon"s Vip Vop Band, but retired from studio work due to his health in the 1950s.
He quit music and opened a store in Saranac Lake, New York, and later retired to Texas. Bishop"s compositions include "Midnight Blue", "Woodchopper"s Ball", and "Blue Prelude" (with Gordon Jenkins), and his work has been covered by musicians as diverse as Ten Years After and Lawrence Welk.
Membership
He was a founding member of Woody Herman"s band in the 1930s, but he contracted tuberculosis in 1940 and had to leave the group.
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United States