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Breakout on vinyl is my favorite Spyro Gyra release of the 1980's. Breakout was (and still is) proof that great production values have the ability to transcend the media format.
Spyro Gyra’s second album, in 1979, had the band’s breakout title song, which became a Top 40 single. Today, the Calypso-inspired track “Morning Dance” is still in heavy rotation on smooth ...
A quickening, surprisingly sprite Spyro Gyra sets up this luminous guitar riff by then-recent addition Julio Fernandez—still today a member of the group, along with co-founders Beckenstein and ...
Spyro Gyra: A Night Before Christmas album review by Woodrow Wilkins, published on September 30, 2008. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!
Spyro Gyra share their new single, “50/50,” available now via Amherst Records/Reservoir Recordings.
Spyro Gyra has been at it for a long time, and the band has built the base, made the appropriate recordings, and delivered live. The group's take on modern jazz, fusion, and a little funk has ...
On its new full-length album, the jazz-pop group Spyro Gyra doesn’t just put melody forward, as usual. On the title cut, bass player Scott Ambush pops like Jiffy Pop popcorn, emphasizing an ...
Spyro Gyra is on the cusp of another career milestone as they head into the band's 50th year as one of the hardest touring bands in contemporary jazz.
Spyro Gyra is finishing up its new album, tentatively titled ”Alternating Currents,” which is due for summer release. ”Of the nine songs, two have some Latin flavor,” he said of the album.
He stayed in Buffalo for eight years because that's where his career bloomed, where he and fellow Spyro Gyra original, keyboard player Tom Schuman, put out the band's debut album in 1976.
Group released self-titled debut album on its own label, Crosseyed Bear; LP was later picked up for national distribution and band began to attract a national audience.
Forging a sound of its own from a musical amalgam — jazz, funk, Latin, R&B; and rock — Spyro Gyra in recent years has consistently sent LPs to the top of the jazz-album chart.