Native North Carolinian Jeb Bishop Brings His Jazz Résumé Back Home

From Indy Week, an interview and profile with free jazz player Jeb Bishop.

Jeb Bishop has been in Carrboro for eight months, but the complications have yet to let him settle in. When his wife accepted a job at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in July, he followed her down from Chicago, where the trombonist had spent more than 20 years as a key cog in the city’s famed free jazz scene.

But there were tours with The Whammies and Peter Brötzmann‘s Chicago Tentet, two vastly different ensembles—the first, a reverent and studied tribute to experimental jazz great Steve Lacy; the second, a world-renowned ensemble that specializes in ever-evolving textural expanses.