Every jazz birthday presents a contrast between a creative (productive) world and an uninspired (unproductive) world. When I went to a web site this morning to look up a word, I was told that to proceed I had first to take a poll: Was I Democrat, Republican, or Independent? I refused. I went elsewhere, because I consider these political divisions all to lie in one realm, the realm of taking from others, not making for oneself or for others. Taking vs. making. Taking is unproductive. Making is productive. Walter Bishop, Jr., pianist, became active starting in the late 1940s, recording … Continue reading Jazz Birthday: Walter Bishop, Jr. (1927)