Groove junkies searching for a fix need look no further. Mainlining this music--a hard-hitting big band set that satisfies as it soars--offers a serious high. With a pen and mind untrammeled by norms and expectations, and a tight crew of musical compatriots bringing stentorian sound and vision to his book, trombonist-composer Ben Patterson delivers the goods ...

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Steve Fidyk Live Wire Broad Band: Red Beats

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by Jack Bowers
March 1, 2023

Would a big band by any other name swing as hard? That's really hard to say (pardon the pun) but is certainly true on Red Beats, an implacably swinging album deftly performed by drummer Steve Fidyk's fashionably named Live Wire Broad Band. Fidyk, who spent more than two decades keeping flawless time for the U.S. Army ...

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Push The Limits

By Ben Patterson

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Push The Limits; Alternate Reality; Easter Waltz; Fear Is The Mind-Killer; Hope; Suits Me Fine; Almost There; Alone Time; Road Trip; Scoish.

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Ben Patterson: Push The Limits

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by Jack Bowers
April 14, 2021

It took no more than a quick Google search to find that every member of trombonist Ben Patterson's quintet is (or was) also a member of the U.S. Air Force's flagship jazz ensemble, the Airmen of Note. On Push the Limits, Patterson challenges his fellow airmen to cruise through ten of his elaborate compositions and arrangements, ...

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Push the Limits

April 4, 2021

Album: Push The Limits
By Ben Patterson
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 10:09

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Frank Kimbrough - The Friends' Mixtape Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 8, 2021

To celebrate the late Frank Kimbrough, whose untimely passing on December 30, 2020 added another unnecessary layer of grief on a challenging year, we have reached out to some of his long time friends and collaborators asking them to share a track that in their hearts immediately conjured up memories of Frank. It could be one ...

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