Spyro Gyra 50th Anniversary
Schedule
Wed Aug 21 2024 at 07:30 pm
Location
Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club | Portsmouth, NH
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"Spyro Gyra have been around a long time and this is their 31st album, disproving any thought that the band was a one-hit wonder or lacked longevity."— ???? ??????? (???? ????? ?????? ?? '????? ???')
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???-??????® ????? ????????? & ????????? ???? ?????? ???? ????? ???? ????????? ????? ?? ???? ???????????! With over 30 acclaimed albums, garnering Gold and Platinum Certification along the way, they’ve played over 10,000 concerts on six continents, and have maintained a standard of excellence that has sustained them on the “A list” of live attractions in jazz.
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???? ?? ????????, ?????????? ??? ??????????? ???? ?? ????????? ?? ??? ????? ?? ????? ?????????, ??????? ??????, ????? ??????? ??? ????? ?????????, and started playing the saxophone at age seven. Beckenstein attended the University at Buffalo, starting out as a biology major before changing to music performance. During summer breaks, he and an old high school friend, keyboardist Jeremy Wall, played gigs together back on Long Island. Wall attended college in California, and after both graduated, Beckenstein stayed in Buffalo’s thriving music scene, where Wall eventually joined him.
“??? ???? ?????? ???? ??, ??? ??????? ??? ???? ? ???? ??????? ???? ????, ???? ? ??????? ?????, ????, ????, ???? ?????????? ?????, ?? ??? ??????,” ??????????? ?????. “After being confined to classical music for so long, it was heaven. I was in the horn sections around town, backing some great vocalists.”
????? ????, ????? ??? ???? ??? ????? ?????? ????? ??????, ??? ????? ????? ?????? ?? “??????? ????? ???? ????,” a forum wherein Beckenstein and Wall were joined by a rotating cast of characters. Tuesday just happened to be the night when most musicians weren’t playing other gigs to pay their bills. Around this time, a young keyboardist named Tom Schuman began sitting in when he was only sixteen years old. This young man, of course, remains a member to this day.
“???’? ?????? ??? ???????????? ????-???? ????? ?? ???? ??????,” ??????????? ??????. “We were the kings of self-indulgence, but eventually we earned our right to charge a quarter at the door. It was a complete shock when word of our psychosis got out and we started packing them in!”
??? ?????’? ?????????? ?????????? – ???????? ???? ??? ???????? ?? ? ??? ???? ??? ??? ???? – prompted the owner to insist that Beckenstein come up with a name for his band. “It began as a joke. I said ‘spirogyra,’ he misspelled it, and here we are thirty years later. In retrospect, it’s okay. In a way, it sounds like what we do. It sounds like motion and energy.”
?? ????? ???????? ????, ????? ???? ???? ????? ???? ???? ??????? ?????? ??? ?????? ?? ??????? – bands whose creative flights were fueled by a willingness to do things that had never been done before.
??? ????? ??? ????? ??? ??? ?????’? ???????? ????? ???? ? ??????? ???? ??? ??? ? ???????? ??????? ????????? ???????, ????? ??? ?? ??? ???????? ???? ?? ?????????? ?? ??? ???? ??? ??????????. These albums were the product of the band and a great number of the top session players in New York.
????? ????? ???????? ?????? ‘??????? ?????’ (????) ??? ????? ??? ?????? ?? ?? ??? ???????. There they stayed until MCA acquired noted contemporary jazz label GRP Records. 'Morning Dance' reached #11 in the UK Albums Chart, #27 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart, and #47 in Canada. The song "Morning Dance" reached #1 on the US Adult Contemporary singles chart. The album was Certified Gold in 1979, then Platinum in 1987 by the RIAA.
The album 'Catching the Sun' was released on MCA in February 1980, becoming the #4 Jazz Album of 1980. 'Alternating Currents' (1985) and 'Breakout '(1986) would be among the Top 15 Jazz Albums on Billboard in 1986. Both 'Stories Without Words' and 'Rites of Summer' were among Billboard's top 15 Contemporary Jazz Albums of 1988. Spyro Gyra ended the decade as Billboard's most successful jazz artist of the 1980s.
In 2013, the band got together in the studio over a three-day period with the intention of capturing their innate ability to construct compositions through a jam approach, written and recording a whole new album, ‘The Rhinebeck Sessions’. The response was great, both on the radio and in the press.
In 2014, the band did an extended ‘Morning Dance’ tour, playing their landmark breakthrough album on its 35th anniversary which was also their 40th anniversary as a band. After that look backward, they then released a text of their work in the 2000’s, ‘The Best Of The Heads Up Years’. In 2019, there was a long anticipated release of their acclaimed album ‘Vinyl Tap’, in which they once again challenge themselves with something new, an album of all covers from the classic rock era.
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“?? ???? ?? ???? ??? ????? ??? ??? ???? ?????? ?? ??? ???????? ???? ?? ???? ?? ??,” ???? ???????????. “I’ve always felt that music, and particularly instrumental music, has this non-literal quality that lets people travel to a place where there are no words. Whether it’s touching their emotions or connecting them to something that reminds them of something much bigger than themselves, there’s this beauty in music that’s not connected to sentences. It’s very transportive. I would hope that when people hear our music or come to see us, they’re able to share that with us. That’s the truly glorious part of being a musician.”
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