Spyro Gyra - Full Concert - Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival 2003

Spyro Gyra - Full Concert - Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival 2003 Location & date: SUNDAY 13 JULY 2003 • STATENHALL • Congress Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands Spyro Gyra is an American jazz fusion band that was formed in Buffalo, New York, in 1974. The band’s music combines jazz, R&B, funk, and pop music. The band’s name comes from Spirogyra, a genus of green algae which founder Jay Beckenstein had learned about in college. LINEUP Jay Beckenstein (saxophones); Julio Fernandez (guitars); Tom Schuman (keyboards); Scott Ambush (bass); Joel Rosenblatt (drums). ABOUT After twenty-five years Jay Beckenstein, sax player and leader of the band Spyro Gyra, suddenly was fed up with it. For jazz journalists and critics had never understood the music of his band the way it was meant to be. Only the fans could distinguish the truth in the firm foundations of the music that had only little to do with the smooth jazz that is maliciously suggested about his band. Th