My latest book, "Jazz Saxophone Duets by Greg Fishman" is now available.

"The titles of Greg Fishman's new collection of duets read like a Chicago Street map, and the music reads like a post-bebop encyclopedia of sounds and melodic shapes that are required repertoire for any young jazz saxophonist."
––Dr. David Demsey, Coordinator of Jazz Studies, William Paterson University.

Retail Price $29.95 Sale Price $24.95

"Columbus Drive" Two Alto Version	"Columbus Drive" Two Tenor Version	"Columbus Drive' Alto & Tenor Version

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The new Judy Roberts & Greg Fishman duo CD
"Two For The Road" is here!

Now you can hear the intimate duo that was the surprise hit of the Northsea Jazz Festival. Judy and Greg play their most requested Standards and Jazz songs on this CD, and also feature their unique form of improvised counterpoint...."
The tour de force...a brilliant duo passage in which Fishman and roberts spun intricate lines in canonic fashion. The chase was quick, the articulation crisp, the syncopation tricky and unexpected." –– Chicago Tribune

	1. My Heart Stood Still 2. Agua de Beber 3. NY State of Mind 4. Cotton Tail 5. Two For The Road / Dreamsville 6. The Girl From Ipanema 7. Early Autumn 8. Lullaby of Birdland 9. Forgive Me 10. Dahlia
14.99 USD

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Click here to read the new Pioneer Press feature article about Greg Fishman and Judy Roberts!
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The latest release from
Two For Brazil, titled
"Take Five" is now available!
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I'm very proud to display the latest review from a performance at the Jazz Showcase on February 12th, 2004:

Two for Brazil, Judy Roberts warm up Jazz Showcase
by Howard Reich

February 13 2004

Music devotees everywhere know that the Jazz Showcase routinely presents the foremost touring artists in the business, but every winter the venerable club turns its attention to Chicago-based talent.

For local audiences, the brief switch in policy gives local listeners a chance to reassess players who often are taken for granted. For Chicago musicians, the cold months afford an opportunity to play a nationally noted jazz club without leaving town. This week's all-Chicago lineup at the Showcase stands out, for it's a double-bill featuring artists of considerable skill and rising repute.

Thursday night's opening show, played for a smallish but raptly attentive audience, hardly could have been more deftly programmed for a freezing week in Chicago. The very sound of Greg Fishman's ethereal flute and tenor saxophone work and Paulinho Garcia's warmly insinuating vocals and soft-spoken guitar playing evoked images of white sandy beaches along the coast of South America.

That's precisely what this exceptional duo, which calls itself Two for Brazil, had in mind.
But even beyond its idiomatic performance of music from Garcia's homeland, the duo produced top-flight jazz improvisation that transcended stylistic boundaries.

Consider Garcia and Fishman's intriguing account of Dizzy Gillespie's jazz classic
"A Night in Tunisia."

"Many people take Brazilian music into jazz," Garcia told the audience, by way of introduction. "We take jazz into Brazilian music."

Sure enough, the Gillespie tune instantly conveyed a Brazilian lilt, its nervous rhythms sleekly reimagined, its jagged melody lines redefined according to the contours of Brazilian song. This may not have been a "Tunisia" for purists, but as an experiment in cross-cultural transformation it proved uncommonly persuasive.

This listener would have been content to hear an evening's worth of Two for Brazil, but the beguiling duo was the night's opening foray. For once Garcia left the stage, Fishman was joined by pianist Judy Roberts and the rest of her quartet.

Roberts has been a mainstay of Chicago jazz for more decades than she probably cares to remember, but her uncounted engagements in hotel bars and noisy saloons have tended to obscure the melodic beauty and tonal sheen of her best work. Playing in a room where audiences actually listen, Roberts turned in warmly disarming vocals and slyly understated jazz pianism.

The best moments came in "Billie's Bounce," the Charlie Parker bebop anthem that Roberts and Fishman opened in unison, Roberts' high-register vocals exquisitely in sync with Fishman's fast-moving tenor lines. Though the tempo seemed dangerously fast at first, within a few bars it was clear that Roberts and Fishman (who are married) were articulating these volatile, rhythmically mercurial lines with ease.

Larry Gray's comparably buoyant bass lines and Phil Gratteau's impeccable drum work added significantly to the elan of a quartet that thrives in a mainstream idiom.

Two for Brazil and the Judy Roberts Quartet play through Sunday at the Jazz Showcase, 59 W. Grand Ave.;

––Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune

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Author, Author...

Mike Jeffers, CEO of Chicago Jazz Magazine, has asked me to be a contributor to their great new publication. I'll be writing about jazz concepts, elements of jazz improvisation, covering everything from licks and patterns, to solo development and ear training. My first article will appear in the January edition of the paper.

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Many thanks to the fans and friends I met on the Concord Jazz Festival tour in Japan. I hope to see you all again soon!

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