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The discography below was compiled by Clyde Smith. A probably more up-to-date version is also maintained at this Wikipedia page. See the front page for news about recent recordings!
As leader or co-leader:
1998
Jeb Bishop
98 Duets
Wobbly Rail
1999
Jeb Bishop Trio
Jeb Bishop Trio
Okka Disk
2001
Jeb Bishop Trio/Quartet
Afternoons
Okka Disk
2002
Jeb Bishop & Sebi Tramontana
Chicago Defenders
Wobbly Rail
2006
Lucky 7s
Farragut
Lakefront Digital
2009
Lucky 7s
Pluto Junkyard
Clean Feed Records
2009
Jeb Bishop Trio
2009
Better Animal Recordings
2012
Jeb Bishop & Jorrit Dijkstra
1000 Words
Driff Records
2012
Jeb Bishop & Tim Daisy
Old Shoulders
Relay Recordings
2017
Jeb Bishop & Dan Ruccia
Scratch Slice Jag
Out & Gone Music
Collaborative recordings:
1999
Joe McPhee / Jeb Bishop
The Brass City
Okka Disk
2002
Tony Bevan, Jeb Bishop, Michael Zerang, John Edwards
Nham
Foghorn Records
2002
Jeb Bishop & Sebi Tramontana
Chicago Defenders
Wobbly Rail
2007
The Engines
The Engines
Okka Disk
2008
Jeb Bishop / Harris Eisenstadt / Jason Roebke
Tiebreaker
Not Two Records
2010
The Engines
Wire And Brass
Okka Disk
2011
Joe McPhee, Jeb Bishop, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Michael Zerang
Ibsen’s Ghosts
Not Two Records
2012
Jeb Bishop, Jaap Blonk, Lou Mallozzi & Frank Rosaly
At The Hideout
Kontrans
2012
Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio & Jeb Bishop
Burning Live At Jazz Ao Centro
JACC Records
2013 (trombone, electronics/fx)
Cactus Truck With Jeb Bishop and Roy Campbell
Live In USA
Tractata Records
2013
Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio + Jeb Bishop
The Flame Alphabet
Not Two Records
2013
The Engines w/ John Tchicai
Other Violets
Not Two Records
2015
The Engines
Green Knights
Aerophonic Records
2015
Polyorchard
Color Theory in Black and White
Polyorchard
2017
Polyorchard
Red October
Out & Gone Music
2017
Matthias Muche / Matthias Müller / Jeb Bishop
Konzert für Hannes
Not Two
As sideman:
1994 (bass guitar and trombone)
The Flying Luttenbachers
Constructive Destruction
ugEXPLODE Records
1995 (bass guitar, casio)
The Flying Luttenbachers
Destroy All Music
ugEXPLODE Records
1997 (trombone, guitar)
The Vandermark 5
Single Piece Flow
Atavistic
1997 (trombone, guitar)
The Vandermark 5
Every Tuesday At The Empty Bottle The Vandermark 5 Will Pour An Ocean Of Sound Into Your Bucket. Drink, Don't Drown.
Savage Sound Syndicate
1998 (trombone, guitar)
The Vandermark Five
Target Or Flag
Atavistic Records
1998
Brötzmann, The Chicago Octet / Tentet
1 / 2 / 3
Okka Disk
1999
Joe Harriott Project
Straight Lines
Atavistic Records
1999 (trombone, guitar)
The Vandermark 5
Simpatico
Atavistic Records
1999 (trombone, guitar)
The Vandermark 5
Every Tuesday At The Empty Bottle The Battle For Supremacy Continues: The Vandermark 5 Vs. Santo, El Enmascarado De Plata - Thinking On One's Feet.
Savage Sound Syndicate
1999
John Corbett & Heavy Friends
I'm Sick About My Hat
Atavistic Records
2000
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet
Stone/Water
Okka Disk
2000 (trombone, guitar)
The Vandermark 5
Burn The Incline
Atavistic Records
2000
Fred Lonberg-Holm
Site-Specific: Duets For Cello And Guitar (appears on one track)
Explain:
2000
John Butcher
Anomalies In The Customs Of The Day: Music On Seven Occasions (appears on one track)
Meniscus
2001
The Vandermark 5
Acoustic Machine
Atavistic Records
2001
Territory Band-1
Transatlantic Bridge
Okka Disk
2001
Kyle Bruckmann
And
Musica Genera
2001
Terminal 4 (trombone, guitar)
Terminal 4
Atavistic Records / Truckstop
2001
Terminal 4 (trombone, guitar)
When I'm Falling
Atavistic Records / Truckstop
2001
School Days
Crossing Division
Okka Disk
2002
The Vandermark 5
Free Jazz Classics Vol. 1 & 2
Atavistic Records
2002
Territory Band-2
Atlas
Okka Disk
2002
Zu
Igneo
Wide Records
2002
School Days
In Our Times
Okka Disk
2002
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet Plus Two
Short Visit To Nowhere
Okka Disk
2002
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet Plus Two
Broken English
Okka Disk
2002
Performed by School Days And The Thing, Presented By Mats Gustafsson
The Music Of Norman Howard
Anagram Records
2002
Paul Rutherford
Chicago 2002
Emanem
2003
Kyle Bruckmann
Wrack
Red Toucan Records
2003
The Vandermark 5
Airports For Light
Atavistic Records
2004
The Vandermark 5
Elements Of Style, Exercises In Surprise
Atavistic Records
2004
Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls
Breeding Resistance
Delmark Records
2004
Atomic / School Days
Nuclear Assembly Hall
Okka Disk
2004
Territory Band-3
Map Theory
Okka Disk
2004
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet
Images
Okka Disk
2004
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet
Signs
Okka Disk
2004
The Lightbox Orchestra
Two Lightboxes
Locust Music
2005
The Vandermark 5
The Color Of Memory
Atavistic Records
2005
The Vandermark 5
Alchemia
Not Two Records
2005
Daniele D'Agaro, Jeb Bishop, Kent Kessler, Robert Barry
Chicago Overtones
hatOLOGY
2005
Harris Eisenstadt
The Soul And Gone
482 Music
2005
Territory Band-4
Company Switch
Okka Disk
2005
The Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet Featuring Mike Pearson
Be Music, Night
Okka Disk
2006
The Vandermark 5
Free Jazz Classics Vol. 3 & 4
Atavistic Records
2007
The Flatlands Collective
Gnomade
Skycap Records
2007 - (bass guitar, Casio keyboard)
The Flying Luttenbachers
Destroy All Music Revisited
Skin Graft Records
2007
Exploding Star Orchestra
We Are All From Somewhere Else
Thrill Jockey
2008
Globe Unity Orchestra
Globe Unity - 40 Years
Intakt Records
2008
Bill Dixon With Exploding Star Orchestra
Thrill Jockey
2008
Atomic / School Days
Distil
Okka Disk
2009
Mike Reed's People, Places & Things
About Us
482 Music
2009
The Flatlands Collective
Maatjes
Clean Feed Records
2010
Hamid Drake & Bindu
Reggaeology
Rogue Art
2010
Keefe Jackson Quartet
Seeing You See
Clean Feed
2010
Mike Reed's People, Places & Things
Stories And Negotiations
482 Music
2010
Exploding Star Orchestra
Stars Have Shapes
Delmark Records
2010
Jorrit Dijkstra's Pillow Circles
Pillow Circles
Clean Feed Records
2010
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1
3 Nights In Oslo
Smalltown Superjazzz
2011
KLANG
Other Doors
Allos Documents
2011
Darren Johnston's Gone To Chicago
The Big Lift
Porto Franco Records
2011
Predella Group
Strade D'Acqua / Roads Of Water
Multikulti Project
2012
Josh Berman & His Gang
There Now
Delmark Records
2012
The Whammies
Play The Music Of Steve Lacy
Driff Records
2012
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet
Walk, Love, Sleep
Smalltown Superjazzz
2012
Paul Giallorenzo's GitGo
Emergent
Leo Records
2013
The Whammies
Play The Music Of Steve Lacy Vol. 2
Driff Records
2013
Peter Brötzmann
Long Story Short
Trost Records
2013
Ken Vandermark's TOPOLOGY Nonet featuring Joe McPhee
Impressions Of Po Music
Okka Disk
2013
The Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet
Concert For Fukushima Wels 2011
PanRec/Trost Records
2014
Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra
Matter Anti-Matter
Rogue Art
2014
The Whammies
Play The Music Of Steve Lacy Vol. 3, Live
Driff Records
2014
Paul Giallorenzo's GitGo
Force Majeure
Delmark Records
2014
Jason Roebke Octet
High/Red/Center
Delmark Records
2014
Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack
...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire
Singlespeed Music
2014
Jorrit Dijkstra's Pillow Circles
Pillow Circles Live Bimhuis Amsterdam
Driff Records
2014
Bonaventure Pencroff
De Fortune
Mz Records
2015
Bathysphere
Bathysphere
Driff Records
2015
Long Sidewalks
Staffa
Breakfast for Dinner Records
2016
Harris Eisenstadt
Old Growth Forest
Clean Feed Records
2017
Harris Eisenstadt
Recent Developments
Songlines
2017
Chicago Edge Ensemble
Decaying Orbit
Lizard Breath
2017
Dan Phillips Quartet
Converging Tributaries
Lizard Breath
Rock collaborations (guitars, drums, keyboards, vocals, trombone)
1989
Metal Pitcher
A Careful Workman is the Best Safety Device (7")
Merge
1991
The Angels of Epistemology
The Angels of Epistemology (7" EP)
Merge
1995
The Angels of Epistemology
Fruit
Merge Records
Rock/pop/electronic sideman appearances:
199?
Bicentennial Quarters
Bicentennial Quarters
(self-released?)
1995
Tortoise
Gamera / Cliff Dweller Society (12" EP)
Duophonic Super 45
1995
Gastr Del Sol
The Harp Factory On Lake Street
Table Of The Elements
1997
CHEER-ACCIDENT
Enduring The American Dream
CHEER-ACCIDENT
1997
Jim O'Rourke
Bad Timing
Drag City
1997
Stereolab
Dots And Loops
Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks
1998
Gastr Del Sol
Camoufleur
Drag City
1998 (trombone, guitar, bass)
In Zenith
Building A Better Future
Miguel Recordings
1999
Jim O'Rourke
Eureka
Drag City
1999
Olivia Block
Pure Gaze
Sedimental Records
1999
Superchunk
Come Pick Me Up
Merge Records
1999
Simon Joyner
The Lousy Dance
Truckstop
1999
The Aluminum Group
Pedals
Rock Records (Japan) Co. Ltd.
2000
Rian Murphy & Will Oldham
All Most Heaven
Drag City
2000
Portastatic
De Mel, De Melão
Merge Records
2000
The Sea and Cake
Oui
Thrill Jockey
2000
The Aluminum Group
Introducing ...
Marina Records
2000
CHEER-ACCIDENT
Salad Days
Skin Graft
2001
Stereolab
Sound-Dust
Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks
2002
The Fire Show
Saint the Fire Show
Perishable Records
2002
Chris Mills
The Silver Line
Powerless Pop Recorders
2004
Great3
When You Were a Beauty
EMI Records Japan
2005
Olivia Block
Change Ringing
Cut Records
2006
Tortoise with Bonnie Prince Billy
The Brave and the Bold
Overcoat Recordings
2011
Marketa Irglova
ANAR
Anti-
2016
Mount Moriah
How to Dance
Merge