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Spyro Gyra

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Spyro Gyra is an American jazz fusion band that was formed in Buffalo, New York in 1974. [1]

81 relations: A Foreign Affair (Spyro Gyra album), A Night Before Christmas, Access All Areas (Spyro Gyra album), Alex Ligertwood, Alternating Currents (album), Barrington "Bo" Henderson, Billy Kilson, Breakout (Spyro Gyra album), Buffalo, New York, Carnaval (Spyro Gyra album), Catching the Sun (album), Chet Catallo, City Kids (album), Collection (Spyro Gyra album), Dave Samuels, Deniece Williams, Down the Wire, Dreams Beyond Control, Fast Forward (Spyro Gyra album), Freetime (album), Funk, Gerardo Velez, Good to Go-Go, Got the Magic (Spyro Gyra album), Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance, GRP Records, Heads Up International, Heart of the Night, In Modern Times, Incognito (Spyro Gyra album), Infinity Records, Jay Azzolina, Jay Beckenstein, Jazz, Jazz fusion, Jeremy Wall, John Tropea, Jorge Dalto, Keb' Mo', Love and Other Obsessions, Manolo Badrena, Marc Quiñones, Marcus Miller, MCA Records, Michael Brecker, Morning Dance, Original Cinema, ..., Pancreatic cancer, Point of View (Spyro Gyra album), Pop music, Randy Brecker, Recording Industry Association of America, Rhythm and blues, Richard Tee, Rites of Summer, Road Scholars, Santana (band), Scott Ambush, Smooth jazz, Spirogyra, Spyro Gyra (album), Steve Gadd, Steve Jordan (drummer), Stories Without Words, Suzanne Ciani, The Best of Spyro Gyra – The First Ten Years, The Deep End (Spyro Gyra album), Three Wishes (Spyro Gyra album), Tom Schuman, Tom Scott (musician), Toots Thielemans, UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, Weather Report, Will Lee (bassist), Windham Hill Records, Wrapped in a Dream, 20/20 (Spyro Gyra album). Expand index (31 more) »

A Foreign Affair (Spyro Gyra album)

A Foreign Affair is an album by American jazz fusion band, Spyro Gyra.

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A Night Before Christmas

A Night Before Christmas is the thirtieth album (and first Christmas album) by Spyro Gyra, recorded and released in 2008.

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Access All Areas (Spyro Gyra album)

Access All Areas is the eighth album and first live album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1984.

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Alex Ligertwood

Alexander John "Alex" Ligertwood is a Scottish singer, guitarist and drummer.

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Alternating Currents (album)

Alternating Currents is the ninth album by jazz fusion group Spyro Gyra, released in 1985.

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Barrington "Bo" Henderson

Barrington Scott "Bo" Henderson (born June 10, 1956 in Washington, Pennsylvania) is an African-American R&B singer.

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Billy Kilson

William Earl Kilson (born August 2, 1962) is an American jazz drummer.

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Breakout (Spyro Gyra album)

Breakout is the tenth album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1986.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.

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Carnaval (Spyro Gyra album)

Carnaval is the fourth album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1980.

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Catching the Sun (album)

Catching the Sun is the third album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in 1980 on MCA Records.

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Chet Catallo

Chet Catallo (born March 11, 1953) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work as a member of the band Spyro Gyra.

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City Kids (album)

City Kids is the seventh album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1983.

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Collection (Spyro Gyra album)

Collection is the fifteenth and debut compilation album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1991 (see 1991 in music).

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Dave Samuels

Dave Samuels (born October 9, 1948) is an American vibraphonist and marimba player who spent many years with the contemporary jazz group Spyro Gyra.

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Deniece Williams

Deniece Williams (born June Deniece Chandler; June 3, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter and producer.

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Down the Wire

Down the Wire is the thirty-first album by Spyro Gyra, released on April 28, 2009.

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Dreams Beyond Control

Dreams Beyond Control is the seventeenth album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in 1993 by GRP Records.

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Fast Forward (Spyro Gyra album)

Fast Forward is the fourteenth album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in 1990 by GRP Records.

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Freetime (album)

Freetime is the fifth album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1981.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Gerardo Velez

Gerardo "Jerry" Velez (born August 15, 1947) is a Puerto Rican musician.

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Good to Go-Go

Good to Go-Go is the twenty-ninth album by Spyro Gyra, recorded and released on June 12, 2007.

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Got the Magic (Spyro Gyra album)

Got the Magic is an album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in 1999 by Windham Hill Records.

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Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album (previously: Best Pop Instrumental Album) is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality instrumental albums in the pop music genre.

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Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance was an award given to a song or album for excellence in the jazz fusion genre, a combination of rock and jazz.

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Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance was awarded between 1969 and 2011.

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Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance

The Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance was awarded from 1970 to 1990 and in 1993.

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GRP Records

GRP Records (Grusin-Rosen Productions) is a jazz record label founded by Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen in 1978.

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Heads Up International

Heads Up International is an independent jazz and contemporary instrumental label in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Heart of the Night

Heart of the Night is the nineteenth album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in 1996 by GRP Records.

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In Modern Times

In Modern Times is an album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in 2001 by Heads Up International.

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Incognito (Spyro Gyra album)

Incognito is the sixth album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1982.

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Infinity Records

Infinity Records was a short-lived subsidiary of MCA Records established in New York City in 1978.

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Jay Azzolina

Jay Azzolina (born December 23, 1952) is a jazz-fusion guitarist known for his work with the Grammy-winning group Spyro Gyra.

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Jay Beckenstein

Jay Beckenstein (born May 14, 1951, New York) is a saxophonist, composer, producer, and co-founder of the band Spyro Gyra.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jeremy Wall

Jeremy Wall is a musician, and along with Jay Beckenstein, was a founding member of the jazz fusion band Spyro Gyra.

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John Tropea

John Tropea (pronounced 'tro-pay') (born January 7, 1946) is an American guitarist.

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Jorge Dalto

Jorge Dalto (July 7, 1948 – October 27, 1987) was a pop, jazz and Afro-Cuban music pianist from Argentina, and the former musical director and keyboardist (together with Ronnie Foster) for George Benson, contributing the acoustic piano intro and solo to Benson's 1976 Grammy-winning hit version of Leon Russell's "This Masquerade".

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Keb' Mo'

Kevin Roosevelt Moore (born October 3, 1951), known as Keb' Mo', is an American blues musician and four-time Grammy Award winner.

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Love and Other Obsessions

Love and Other Obsessions is the eighteenth album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in 1995 by GRP Records.

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Manolo Badrena

Manolo Badrena (born March 17, 1952 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a percussionist most noted for his work with Weather Report from 1976 to 1977.

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Marc Quiñones

Marc Quiñones is a percussionist, a longtime player in salsa music, a former member of the Southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band (1991-2014) and the Gregg Allman Band.

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Marcus Miller

Marcus Miller (born William Henry Marcus Miller Jr.; June 14, 1959) is an American jazz composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, best known as a bass guitarist.

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MCA Records

MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group (now Universal Music Group), which the label was part of until its dissolution in 2003.

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Michael Brecker

Michael Leonard Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Morning Dance

Morning Dance is the second album by the jazz fusion group Spyro Gyra.

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Original Cinema

Original Cinema is the twenty-sixth album by Spyro Gyra, released on February 25, 2003.

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Pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer arises when cells in the pancreas, a glandular organ behind the stomach, begin to multiply out of control and form a mass.

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Point of View (Spyro Gyra album)

Point of View is the thirteenth album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in June 1989 by GRP Records.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Randy Brecker

Randal Edward Brecker (born November 27, 1945) is an American trumpeter and flugelhornist.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Richard Tee

Richard Tee (November 24, 1943 – July 21, 1993) was an American pianist, studio musician, singer and arranger who had several hundred studio credits and played on such notable hits as; In Your Eyes, Slip Slidin' Away, Just the Two of Us, Tell Her About It, and many others.

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Rites of Summer

Rites of Summer is the twelfth album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1988.

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Road Scholars

Road Scholars is the second live album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in 1998 by GRP Records.

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Santana (band)

Santana is a Latin music and rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1966 by Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana.

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Scott Ambush

Scott Ambush is an American musician, best known as the bass player of jazz fusion band Spyro Gyra.

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Smooth jazz

Smooth jazz is music that evolved from a blend of jazz fusion and easy listening pop music, featuring a polished pop feel with little to no jazz improvisation.

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Spirogyra

Spirogyra (common names include water silk, mermaid's tresses, and blanket weed) is a genus of filamentous charophyte green algae of the order Zygnematales, named for the helical or spiral arrangement of the chloroplasts that is characteristic of the genus.

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Spyro Gyra (album)

Spyro Gyra is the self-titled debut album by the jazz fusion group Spyro Gyra, released in 1978.

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Steve Gadd

Stephen Kendall Gadd (born April 9, 1945) is an American drummer, percussionist, and session musician.

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Steve Jordan (drummer)

Steve Jordan (January 14, 1957) is an American drummer, songwriter, and record producer who has spent much of his career as a studio musician.

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Stories Without Words

Stories Without Words is the eleventh album by American jazz fusion band Spyro Gyra, released in 1987.

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Suzanne Ciani

Suzanne Ciani (born June 4, 1946) is an Italian American pianist, composer and sound designer who found early success with innovative electronic music and quadraphonic sound.

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The Best of Spyro Gyra – The First Ten Years

The Best of Spyro Gyra – The First Ten Years is the second compilation and twenty-second album overall by Spyro Gyra released in 1998.

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The Deep End (Spyro Gyra album)

The Deep End is the twenty-seventh album by Spyro Gyra, released on May 25, 2004.

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Three Wishes (Spyro Gyra album)

Three Wishes is the sixteenth album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in 1992 by GRP Records.

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Tom Schuman

Tom Schuman (born January 31, 1958) is an American pianist, smooth jazz keyboardist, the co-leader of Spyro Gyra, and an arranger.

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Tom Scott (musician)

Thomas Wright “Tom” Scott (born May 19, 1948) is an American saxophonist, composer, and arranger.

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Toots Thielemans

Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans (29 April 1922 – 22 August 2016), known professionally as Toots Thielemans, was a Belgian-American jazz musician.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Weather Report

Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s.

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Will Lee (bassist)

William Franklin "Will" Lee IV (born September 8, 1952) is an American bassist known for his work on the Late Show with David Letterman as part of the CBS Orchestra.

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Windham Hill Records

Windham Hill Records was an independent record label that specialized in instrumental acoustic music.

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Wrapped in a Dream

Wrapped in a Dream is the twenty-eighth album by Spyro Gyra, recorded and released in 2006.

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20/20 (Spyro Gyra album)

20/20 is the twentieth album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in 1997 by GRP Records.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyro_Gyra

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