In 2014, the Buffalo, NY band Spyro Gyra will celebrate its 40th anniversary. Indeed, a remarkable feat. Well-known for cross- pollinating contemporary jazz with jazz-fusion, the musicians merge an ...

Spyro Gyra, the jazz-fusion band considered a forefather of the smooth jazz genre, plays the Phillips Center tonight. It certainly is not the band's first time in Gainesville; I saw them at the ...

Spyro Gyra spun out of Buffalo, N.Y., in 1975, creating a cool jazz tradition that reached its pop peak with the No. 1 adult contemporary hit “Morning Dance” in 1979. The band has continued ...

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.

In 2014, the Buffalo, NY band Spyro Gyra will celebrate its 40th anniversary. Indeed, a remarkable feat. Well-known for cross- pollinating contemporary jazz with jazz-fusion, the musicians merge an ...

Different for us is doing someone else’s music,” said saxophonist Jay Beckenstein, co-founder of the four-time Grammy nominated band Spyro Gyra, about their 31 st album release this month ...

Spyro Gyra first united in Buffalo, NY in 1974 and created an original new framework for contemporary jazz and instrumental music that has now endured for a remarkable half a century. The band ...

He’s toured the world as part of Grammy-winning, instrumental stalwarts Spyro Gyra, but on July 24, Scott Ambush is coming back to his native Frederick to play with his own band at the Baker ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo jazz fusion band Spyro Gyra takes the stage at Electric City Wednesday night. It’s a venue the band has played before, but back when Electric City was the Tralf.

Though no one's sure of the exact date, sometime in 1974, in the cold, cold town of Buffalo, New York, a young jazz combo by the name of Spyro Gyra hit ... has it that the band is looking forward ...