All About Jazz referred to Todd Bishop's Serge Gainsbourg tribute, "69 Annee Erotique," as "... beautiful decadence, brilliant and bright." Here, he features a set of rarely heard gems from Ornette... more

Portland drummer Todd Bishop follows up on his collection of rarely performed Ornette Coleman compositions, 2012's "Little Played Little Bird," with an album of mostly original music, again featuring... more

Portland, Oregon drummer & visual artist Todd Bishop takes on a new series of projects with his "Pop Art 4" group, beginning with a modern, cinematic reading of music from the French composer,... more

The debut recording of Portland's Lower Monumental documents a live performance for Seattle's KEXP radio show "Monarchy." Totally unrehearsed or preplanned, Lower Monumental's performances take Jazz... more

Trippy guitar-bass-drums lunar orbit. Flatland is an anti-power trio, shedding Rock heaviness in favor of more delicate thunder. They listen for a map to this land of the free in the work of Charles... more

The guitar/bass/drum trio Flatland found inspiration in the work of Charles Gayle, Sonny Sharrock & Albert Ayler. Most importantly, they stab at the seminal '70s free harmonic jazz of Keith Jarrett's... more