The Woodwind Player’s Cookbook: Creative Recipes for a Successful Performance
This fun book is a collection
of quick-to-read and insightful
strategies compiled from a group of talented woodwind “chefs,”
who could easily be considered experts in their fields. With outstanding
records of performance, workshop clinics, recordings,
research, composition, leadership, and teaching the 57 authors
provide their favorite “recipes” that range from overviews of successful
programs to specific topics that will inspire all levels and
types of ensembles and performers.
The Woodwind Player’s Cookbook: Creative Recipes for a Successful Performance,
Meredith Music Publications, Galesville, MD, 2008.
Jazz Phrasing for Beginners: Alto and Tenor Saxophone Edition
"Over the past several years, I've received many requests for a beginning level jazz book, but every time I'd start to write it, I'd run into the problem of the pieces being too challenging on a technical level," writes professional saxophonist, teacher, and clinician Greg Fishman. So, Fishman decided to write his own simple, catchy tunes with clear melodic development, rather than simplified versions of more advanced pieces. Two play-along CDs are included: an Eb alto saxophone version and a Bb tenor saxophone version.
Jazz Phrasing for Beginners: Alto and Tenor Saxophone Edition, by Greg Fishman, Greg Fishman Jazz Studios, Evanston, IL, 2009.
Jazz Saxophone Duets
As a young player, Greg Fishman was inspired by famous saxophone duets and he often transcribed the arrangements and played along to the records. Now, the teacher and performer, has created a book of duets that gives students the opportunity to experience the excitement of playing professional sax duets. Written in an interactive style where both saxophones are actively involved rhythmically, melodically, and harmonically throughout the duets, the book offers the flexibility of playing with two altos, two tenors, or one alto and one tenor. The three play-along CDs with four different versions of each duet are included with the book feature.
Other books with CDs from Fishman include Jazz Saxophone Etudes for Alto and Tenor, Volumes One and Two, designed to help teachers and students of jazz improv.
Jazz Saxophone Duets, by Greg Fishman,Greg Fishman Jazz Studios, Evanston, IL, 2006.
