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Tyler Mire

Steve Fidyk Live Wire Broad Band: Red Beats

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 ...

#Office for the Day

By Tyler Mire

Label: Ear Up Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Spice of Life; The Arch; Elephant in the Room; #Office for the Day; The Lonely Crouton's Big Day in NYC; Magma Sanctum; Green and Blues; Domo Meets the Bruch King.

Tyler Mire Big Band: #Office for the Day

by Nicholas F. Mondello
December 1, 2017

Social Media has spewed forth a cornucopia of emoticons, symbols, and catchphrases that have Twittered their way into Webster's. The title of trumpeter/composer/arranger Tyler Mire's (pronounced “Meer") latest effort -"#Office for the Day" -is one example of a phrase that's particularly loved by musicians. However, there's nothing common or over-washed out about this latest fine effort ...

Jeff Coffin with Caleb Chapman's Crescent Super Band: The Inside of the Outside

by Jack Bowers
January 12, 2016

The first time woodwind artist Jeff Coffin heard Caleb Chapman's Crescent Super Band, he was greatly impressed--so much so that he decided to record an album with the band. You may be impressed too, especially upon learning that the Super Band, which sounds for all the world like a professional (or advanced university) ensemble, is actually ...

UNT Two O'Clock Lab Band: Kind of Two

by Jack Bowers
January 10, 2014

The University of North Texas, home to the country's oldest, most honored and, many would say, explicitly outstanding Jazz Studies program, has a number of topnotch big bands in the stable, each of which is named after its specific rehearsal time. While the One O'Clock Lab Band, which has been recorded most often, is best known ...

Enter the Atmosph-Mire

By Tyler Mire

Label: Armored Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Mile High Samba; Enter the Atmosph-Mire; Mire-ly a Minor Blues; Brush It Off; Chris Is How We Do It; The Days of Wine and Roses; The Girl from Ipanema (Bones from Ipanema); Eternal Healing; C’Mire.

Tyler Mire Big Band: Enter the Atmosph-Mire

by Nicholas F. Mondello
July 31, 2013

Originally televised back in the black-and-white 1960s, Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone broadcast an episode--now classic--in which miniature alien spacemen land and terrorize a woman who is frightfully alone in her farmhouse. The cover art depicting happy little “musician-nauts" walking in space notwithstanding, Enter the Atmosph-Mire does no terrorizing. It does, however, shoot for, hit, and ...