Walter Bishop Jr.

piano

New York bebop pianist of Barry’s generation, whom Barry named among the pianists who grew up in the 1940s, and one of the people Barry gave his own ‘Barry’ award for being good for jazz.

mentions: 1
recordings: 1
Barry speaking: 1

What Barry says

Barry names Walter Bishop, with Walter Davis, among the pianists who were teenagers in the 1940s like him, though perhaps a little older. He sets that generation apart from Jaki Byard, who grew up in the 1930s, when Art Tatum and stride were the model.

The last train to Monk: an interview17:14 17:52

In his own words

we were teenagers in the 40s Walter Davis Walter Bishop I think they might have been a little bit older but not too much

The last train to Monk: an interview, various, 1987–2019. Barry on the pianists of his generation, just after naming Jaki Byard 17:52 Watch on YouTube at 17:52

Every mention

1 moments in the recordings, 1 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.

The last train to Monk: an interview

various, 1987–2019

17:52
Barry
Named with Walter Davis as a pianist of Barry’s 1940s generation, maybe slightly older
Watch on YouTube at 17:52

In the interviews and notes

JazzTimes profile by Bill Milkowski, 1998, quoting Barry Barry, in his own words
Barry gave out his own award, a ‘Barry’, at his yearly Symphony Space concert to people who had been good for jazz. Walter Bishop Jr. was one of the past recipients, and in 1998 had only recently collected his from an earlier year.
Bill Milkowski, Barry Harris: Young-hearted Elder ¶4Bill Milkowski, Barry Harris: Young-hearted Elder ¶5
Francis Paudras’s account, quoted on the jazzguitar.be Barry Harris thread A student’s notes
When Bud Powell came back to New York in 1964, a crowd of musicians lined the door at Birdland to greet him. Walter Bishop stood among them, along with Barry, Bobby Timmons, Walter Davis, Erroll Garner and others.
jazzguitar.be members (usernames kept per post), Official Barry Harris Thread (jazzguitar.be forum thread) ¶835jazzguitar.be members (usernames kept per post), Official Barry Harris Thread (jazzguitar.be forum thread) ¶836jazzguitar.be members (usernames kept per post), Official Barry Harris Thread (jazzguitar.be forum thread) ¶837
Brian de Lima, thesis on Barry Harris’s concept of movement, 2017 A scholar
A thesis on Barry’s teaching cites Bishop’s joke, via Paul Berliner, that he dropped out of high school but graduated from the bands of Art Blakey, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker. The author uses it to show the jazz tradition of learning from masters rather than institutions.
Brian Jude de Lima, Reanimating Dissonance: Cultivating the Antecedents of Barry Harris’ Concept of Movement as a Multidimensional Pedagogical Tool for Ontario Post-Secondary Jazz Curricula ¶509

Method ideas nearby

Ideas of the method taught in the classes where they come up, with how many mentions fall in each.