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Matt Fishwick is one of the first call drummers in the London. He was born in
Manchester, United Kingdom along with his identical twin brother, Trumpet player Steve
Fishwick, in 1976. Becoming interested in music at a young age he quickly devoured his
Dad's record collection of Big Band jazz, Classical music and Pop/Rock music before
discovering the sounds of Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. Matt
entered the thriving Manchester jazz scene, playing his first professional gigs whilst still
in their early teens, with musicians that are now key players in London and Europe.
In 1994 Matt left Manchester to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Here
he met many like minded musicians that have made an impact on the London Jazz scene.
They included Tom Cawley, Gareth Lockrane, Orlando Le Fleming, and, perhaps most
significantly, Tenor Saxophonist Osian Roberts. It Has been with Osian that both Matt
and Steve have continued to work most closely, playing many gigs together and
recording on Osian’s record label ‘Hard Bop Records’.
Matt also had the opportunity to work with many other great musicians on the London
scene including Mike Carr, Dave Cliff, Jim Mullen etc. as well as visiting Americans
such as Scott Hamilton, John Bunch, Kenny Davern, Howard Alden, Harry Allen, John
Goldsby, Michael Moore, Randy Sandke, Warren Vache, Allan Vache, Phil Flanagan,
John Colianni, Ken Peplowski, and many others.
From 2004 to 2009 Matt lived in New York, Playing and working with many great
musicians including Frank Basile, David Wong, Joe Magnarelli, Jeremy Pelt, John
Colianni, Adam Birnbaum, Frank Wess, Bob Cranshaw, Cedar Walton, Peter
Washington, Joe Cohn, Dmitri Bayevsky, Harry Allen, Sean Smith, Jay Leonhart, Sacha
Perry, Anita O'Day, Mike Karn, and Earl May amongst others. He performed at many
venues in NYC including The Iridium, Smalls, Fat Cat, The Rainbow Room etc. and,
with the John Colianni Trio, on the TV show 'After Hours' on MSNBC.
In 2009 Matt returned to London where he now leads his own quartet and co leads a band
with Steve Fishwick.