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Steve Fidyk
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Known for his versatility and musical approach, jazz drummer Steve Fidyk has earned national and international acclaim as an artist, author, composer and columnist. For more than 21 years, he was the drummer and featured soloist with The Army Blues Big Band, a premier 17-piece jazz ensemble stationed in Washington D.C. Fidyk currently performs with small groups led by tenor saxophonist Walt Weiskopf and guitarist Jack Wilkins. He is also a member of the jazz studies faculty at Temple University, The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is also an educational consultant for Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington Program.
Oblivity
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Oblivity; Quiet the Chaos; Verdigris; Primaries and Spares; Gentle Giant; Lazy Day Reverie; Meu Amor; Sunday
Best; Move the Needle; Flow.
Introducing Trombonist/Vocalist Hailey Brinnel
by Sanford Josephson
After being discharged from the Army in 1945, Pete Rugolo became the primary arranger for the Stan Kenton Band and is credited with keeping that band alive in an era when big band music was beginning to fade. In 1955, Rugolo created an album combining the vocal group, The Four Freshmen, with an all-star ...
Quiet the Chaos
Album: Oblivity
By Shawn Purcell
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 08:20
Red Beats
By Steve Fidyk
Label: Blue Canteen Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Bebop Operations; The Flip Flopper; Untimely; Churn; Food Court Drifter; Gaffe; One for T.J.;
Loopholes; Good Turns.
Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2023
by Jack Bowers
2023 was another banner year for jazz of all shapes and sizes. It has been a pleasure to review so many splendid big-band albums along with wonderful enterprises by smaller groups, some of which were recording for the first time (hopefully, not the last). If this was a preview of things to come, we look forward ...
Judith Owens, Earl Bostic & Don Aliquo
by Joe Dimino
From Nashville-based, Pittsburgh-bred saxophonist Don Aliquo, we kick off this new 793rd Episode of Neon Jazz with a song off his 2023 album Growth. From there, we listen to the artist who gave Don one of his most memorable performances when he was a lad in Arnie Lawrence. We also hear new music from Holly Burke, ...
Steve Fidyk Live Wire Broad Band: Red Beats
by Jack Bowers
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 ...
Battle Lines
By Steve Fidyk
Label: Blue Canteen Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Ignominy; Battle Lines; Loopholes; Thank You,
Dziekuje; Bebop Operations; Bootlickers Blues;
Lullaby For Lori
And John; Churn; Steeplechase; #Social Loafing;
Sir John.
Steve Fidyk, Joe Magnarelli & Gregory Porter
by Joe Dimino
There was so much good music that came out in 2020, we are still catching up. The 691st Episode of Neon Jazz begins with veteran drummer Steve Fidyk with music off his new CD Battle Lines. We also look into some quality music from Stephane Spira, Mark Masters, Gregory Porter and Benny Benack III. Finally, we ...
