Just saw Spyro Gyra here in Clearwater, Florida. Tight band still after all these years, missing Dave Samuels (RIP) it’s not quite the same without the special sound of his marimbas and xylophone.
Memories of my late good friend and ex classmate Charles Muregerera who would come to visit me on those sunny Saturdays and we would spend the day playing vinyl records all day with this one as one of our favorites. Those were the mid-80z and we were young men in our early 20z. RIP Charles.
I grew up listening to Spyro Gyra starting with Morning dance, and buying all of their albums through the 1980s. It's over 40 years later and they still sound fresh, invigorating and relevant. Just hearing these old tracks brings back a flood of memories. I wish i could leave this dark period of time with so much hatred, division and intolerance and go back to those simpler times when all we had were good friends, good memories and great music.
In my opinion Spyro-Gyra is one of the best groups of Smooth-Jazz of the 80s and 90's . Yet it is worth ! Brilliant musicians beginning with Jay Beckenstein and his sax. I´m a Mexican citizen proud of listening to this wonderful music. I was introduced to this music listening to, George Benson and his Lady". Jazz Fan since 1980.
"Catch the Sun" came out when I was a Sophomore in high school--and sitting "second chair" in the sax section, playing "second alto". I fell in love with your music, and "ripped" tons of riffs off your albums for Jazz band. Over the next three years, I bought every album you had available--going back for the first two, and then Carnaval, Freetime, Ingognito. Wow. You just keep getting better and better. They all just blew my mind as a young saxophonist, and the bouncy, bright, cool, smooth energy you put out through your music helped me keep my sanity through the turmoils of high school. We won State Jazz Band Champions my Senior Year (I'd finally made it to "First Chair") and your melodies were in my headphones (Remember the Sony Walkman?) on every bus trip the band took, both for Jazz competitions and Marching Band too. Your music kept my heart light, my mind clear, my toes tapping, and my fingers itching to slide over the pearls of my beloved King Marigaux. You were an integral part of my teen-age years, and a fundamental part of my development as a musician--and as a leader in our band organizations. Thanks for the years of inspiration! I wouldn't be the man I am today--strong, confident, sensitive, creative, and positive--without your wonderful melodies...
Bought this album when it first came out, I was 12. This track obviously magnificent. Last month my 9 year old started the sax, he loves it. Played him this, with 'Keep practicing son, and maybe one day....' Slight tear in my eye. 😊
Lord. I had t be around the same age. I have been Youtubing several of Spyro Gyra's tunes and it's amazing what the mind forgets. The "sound" just touches my soul, man! My spirit misses great music like this.
My mother passed away in January of 2021. It was a Saturday. I woke up and peeped in on her to see if she was still awake, because she was battling dementia, and a few urinary tract infections. That morning, I popped in this CD and went to work, and this song came on, then I get a text to come back home because my mom had passed away, so this song has a lot of meaning to me. I'm so happy that this band came about years ago, and made such a beautiful song, and it compliments my mother. Life has been so sweet since my mom has left physically, but mentally, she hasn't left, so thanks to Spyro gyra for making something years ago, and still applies to every day life.👍👍👍💟👍💟💟👍💟
@@DavidThomas-lt4pj thanks. My days have been so much sweeter! Simply because of im happy to have been her son, and will carry her positive energy every day. No need to feel sad, or mope around. 🙂🙂.👍👍⭐⭐
@@Burt472 no problem.. its all good!! Its as if she hasn't gone. Life is still sweet. I guess it's the positive vibe she left on me. Some of my family members cry from time to time, but I haven't shed 1 tear yet. Some people take a passing away differently. I use it as motivation..🙆♂️👍👍🙂🙂🙂
Love what you have written Silver Surfer. My father passed away last September and today is the first time I have listened to this song, which was always a favourite. . Sunny morning here in Leighton Buzzard UK, (38 miles north of London)
I was a high school trumpet player in 79 in Texas. I convinced my friends to do a road trip to Austin to see these guys in the old Armadillo, which is gone now. Jay let me play a set with the group. He slapped my back and said good job kid. My jazz band did some Spyro Gyra at the state jazz band competition. The judges were all messed up. What, no Big Band tunes? That was funny. Jay was a fantastic guy. He really encouraged the young people to get out and do their thing.
What! As a high school kid you played alongside Jay Beckenstein? Bro, congratulations!!!!!!! He’s one of my favorites, and no way was i ever good enough to perform at that level. I’m impressed! Great memories, thnx for the story.
I was also in the band in high school :) saw them in Corpus Christi with the photog from the school newspaper. Every time I hear the music I'm right back there. Sorry about your good friend.
I bought this record upon its release. It was lost in time. I was overjoyed to recover it on this forum. It has always brought peace on stormy days and unbridled joy on fantastic days. I thank the members of this band. I pray that your lifes received the pleasure and reassurance that you gave me for almost 50 years and whatever I have left.
Was in highschool, band director wanted to get a jazz band within the marching band. Several of us said let's do it. We started listening to different musicians. This album was one he brought for us. Been hooked ever since.
Had the good fortune of seeing them live..they just blew the roof off.tighter than a clock.no doubt they had played together a long time.some serious musical communication going on.
Two others of the early so-called smooth jazz players were David Sanborn and John Klemmer. However, after this first group of players of the genre I came to detest some of the followers.
@@Ewerb7 Smooth jazz has been snooZZZe jazz since the late 90s. Pickings are slim for quality modern jazz. I was listening to 70s and 80s Japanese jazz fusion and that stuff blows away any of the stuff the jazz stations play now. Grover Washington Jr is likely rolling in his grave as the genre he helped create got turned into soulless, repetitive, commercialized noise. Acid jazz is probably the last form of modern jazz not totally contaminated. That and Latin jazz, although Bossa Nova isn't in vogue now.
I love this album, Carnaval and Morning Dance. They bring back great memories of a simpler time and remind me of my deceased Dad who was that cool guy hip to the latest sounds of the time.
I was going to college in New Orleans, because I graduated from high school in May 1979. I was already there, listening to Spyro Gyra. Besides loved loved local bands, especially if played anywhere near the uptown college and universities district. I remember one my roommates and I loved, called "The Sheiks". Lead singer wore long scarves head coverings giving theme to the name of the band. All the girls liked him, and he liked the girls. We were groupies too for a while. Just loved live performances, and could dance, and usually no cover charges. Money from drinks.
I saw Spyro Gyra perform this at the ‘92 UK Capital Radio Jazz Festival. Their instruments were stuck in transit at the airport so the band had to borrow instruments to play their set. It still sounded great! Halcyon days.🌞👍🇬🇧🙏🌞
My favorite Spyro Gyra Album is definitely "Incognito!", but I like to listen to many Spyro Gyra joints from many of their other Albums. They are also my favorite Jazz group!
1981, I was a sophomore in high school and I was in the marching band and jazz band. Had a friend named Ricardo and he was the main drum set player. I would always ask him if I could play lead for this song and after quite a bit of convincing(begging), he finally let me. Great song.
In 81 I was a junior AND the drummer in our jazz band. We played Spyro (this and Morning Dance), Chick Correa (La Fiesta... what a tough SOB at speed to play!!), some Steely Dan (Black Cow among others), a ton of Maynard Ferguson stuff. We even got him to come to our school to put on a concert... so many car washes and bake sales for that one!!! But it was damn worth it.) Ahh the memories of 81... That was also the year our matching band won the state of Arizona marching band competition (yes I was in that too). We were only Double A going up against the 4A's and 5A schools out of Phoenix and Tucson... but we were flat out badassery that year. Never to repeat that feat ever again. Yeah.... badassery!! 😅😅
Hi Jay, discovered your 'Smooth Jazz' type music in the mid 80's when I was in my early 20's and whilst my tastes have changed over the years...this, Morning Dance and some of the early albums are still my all time fav songs. Many thanks and cheers from Australia.
I was working in construction and going to college at the same time then I met Debbie and everything became easy and wonderful. Thank Spyro Gyra for being the soundtrack of my life.
My parents were not at all into any kind of Jazz…and yet they did have a couple of instrumental albums in their collection. And this was one of them. (I actually listened to this entire LP (yes, vinyl!) before I even heard Morning Dance…and I first heard THAT on a SNL sketch with Tim Meadows called “Perspectives”!)
Caught Spyro Gyra live in Washington, D.C. during the 90's. It was an all day free concert. The other performances included Brian Hughes, George Howard, WAR, and The Rippingtons.
fell in love with them when I saw them live at (if memory serves me correct) a free Concert in the Parks in Kansas City, Missouri WAY back before they rebuilt Brush Creek at the Plaza. Or...maybe I saw them at Volker Park concert venue... didn't matter where! It's been love ever since! ❣👍
'm a big fan. These guys play with a great feel for the groove. The saxophone is so lyrical with a warm sound. The arrangements are superb. This music never dates. It sounds as fresh as ever. I live in Melbourne, Australia. Spare a thought for me. The music pumping out of the PA systems in public spaces, every shop and every motor car here is a loud THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! or DOOF! DOOF! DOOF! Why can't it be this sort of music?
I remember listening to this album when I was a young teen back the late 90's, had it on record like so many other albums but this one always stuck with me.
The first time I saw this band playing was in Norman, Oklahoma..I saw them twice the same night. It was around 1978 to 79; them, I saw them again several years after in Caracas, Venezuela..
Ah!! Oxigeno puro para mis sentidos la agrupación SPYRO GYRA que conoci allá por 1980 con esta agradable y fina melodia del Jazz contemporáneo. No por nada ellos siguen siendo uno de mis grandes grupos favoritos del Jazz and New age music, adoro su musica, Gracias por compartir. Gracias y que vivan muchos años mas los integrantes de este gran grupo que ya no los volví a ver desde el Verano de 1992 cuando vinieron al auditorio nacional en al Cuidad de México saludos a todos en este canal....
Una bella canción. Me trae recuerdos de los viajes realizados con mi esposa e hijos a Florida. Los videos, con las diferentes facetas y formas de ser de cada uno.
Grazie per l'amore che mi diede questa musica con il sassofono, che ripresi a suonare dopo un periodo nero, mi diede una scossa con le audiocassette e il mio ritrovato sassofono, grazie e per sempre!
Love, love this song. Had the album back in the 80s. Morning dance was on there too. Serius XM watercolors plays this quite often. Only channel I listen too! Who's with me!?!?
The first album with music like this i bought in 1982-83. It changed my life to the better. Along with a few other albums by Spyro Gyra, like Freetime and Incognito , they was a huge inspiration for me. I hope they we get all their albums on Spotify soon.
I wouldn’t say “hate” but misunderstood! Jazz is varied; smooth jazz, funk jazz, fusion, hard bop, etc. so many are not familiar with this...so they don’t appreciate this genre and sub-genre of music 🎶
Because it's usually not very good, artistically. This song, for instance, lack an expressive red thread. Its different parts or themes sound glued togehter for no apparent reason. There are exceptions though, like the fantastic Pat Metheny group, Al Jarreau, Randy Crawford, even some of Yellow Jacket's output, and so on.
Good nostalgia here. I played in my high school jazz/stage band and on into college. But our band director was also a professional sax player... (still is actually).. and he always played with us. We did quite a bit of Spiro Gyra. We were a little ambitious. 😅 We were pretty good, though, and asked to perform at a lot of different places.
Had to hum this in Google to find it!!!! What a track. Summer in the tropics, on a loaded bus, in a loaded town...in a loaded street, wherever it was, it was loaded a fun...afternoons spent in deep chill
Before moving back to the Midwest ...I "caught the sun" in Southern California for 25 years with this part of the soundtrack for my life and times back then.
Perfect to hear while on a boat in ear the Sydney harbor bridge or near the opera house ❤yea I’ve been to Sydney late December 2017 to January 13th 2018 and loved it. USA New Jersey here
Cuando Venezuela era otra, tuve la fortuna y gusto de poder verlos y escucharlos en vivo, en el teatro Altamira, sitio donde también se presentaron Chick Corea, Maynard Ferguson, Irakere y otros tantos más...
Amazing band !! I really thank God for having discovered after so many years bands like this, from this remote place that is Argentina I am a fervent lover of jazz fusion, a shame not to be able to enjoy them live in my country, since I learned that they were here in my country several years ago ...
Update... 2024, and life is still wonderful... thanks for the positive comments.. I'm loving life more than ever, and the family is still together and more positive 👍👍👍👍
This song got played quite often on this one radio station in my area back when I was a teenager. I haven't heard it in years, but I knew it was somewhere out there. I'm so glad that I found it here on UA-cam.
I have loved you guys ever since your start! Your bro gave us your demo record with original artwork before being released and fell in love. Have seen you many times in concert! My ex stole the album from me!!! darn... keep on making great music!
I heard them live a couple month ago at the Bethesda theater, they are a fantastic group still Jay Beckenstein sounds mostly the same maybe a bit darker nowadays. The problem I had was that the audio crew had the everything way too loud for an indoor dinner venue with decibels reaching 100db, that was from the middle row. Make sure to go see them at an outdoor venue!
In 1992 I walked into a National Record Mart, anyone remember those?, and this was playing in the store. I asked Jo what is the name of that? Then I said I’ll take it. Never regreted buying this album.
I have this album on CD. Bought it years ago after I visited my uncle who was and still is a smooth Jazz fanatic. This song and morning dance are one of their best compositions .. my opinion
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Just saw Spyro Gyra here in Clearwater, Florida. Tight band still after all these years, missing Dave Samuels (RIP) it’s not quite the same without the special sound of his marimbas and xylophone.
Does Tom play those parts on the synth now?
Memories of my late good friend and ex classmate Charles Muregerera who would come to visit me on those sunny Saturdays and we would spend the day playing vinyl records all day with this one as one of our favorites. Those were the mid-80z and we were young men in our early 20z. RIP Charles.
Sounds like you had a great friendship. God bless.
So sorry for the loss of your freind.. He's in Heaven now, and we all shall reunite in time... 😇
(Chris
Thank JB for your music.....my all time fav.
@@renanterezan9922 Indeed thank you.
@@leepresley2055 Amen. Thank you Presley.
I grew up listening to Spyro Gyra starting with Morning dance, and buying all of their albums through the 1980s. It's over 40 years later and they still sound fresh, invigorating and relevant. Just hearing these old tracks brings back a flood of memories. I wish i could leave this dark period of time with so much hatred, division and intolerance and go back to those simpler times when all we had were good friends, good memories and great music.
Amen! So true! The world these days is so unbelievable! So much hatred! In the end, we shall be judged by our actions!
Great. Same thing with me. It's timeless and so happy 😊❤
Catch The Sun
with all that's going on.
Plato recommended it to free our mind from shadows of false ideologies of hateful resentment.
Amen......my very first LP !
Yeah man! You hit it right on the head. And keep listening cause I certainly will.
In my opinion Spyro-Gyra is one of the best groups of Smooth-Jazz of the 80s and 90's . Yet it is worth ! Brilliant musicians beginning with Jay Beckenstein and his sax. I´m a Mexican citizen proud of listening to this wonderful music. I was introduced to this music listening to, George Benson and his Lady". Jazz Fan since 1980.
There is no such thing as smooth jazz... Some girl coined it that... It's instrumental modern jazz
"Catch the Sun" came out when I was a Sophomore in high school--and sitting "second chair" in the sax section, playing "second alto". I fell in love with your music, and "ripped" tons of riffs off your albums for Jazz band. Over the next three years, I bought every album you had available--going back for the first two, and then Carnaval, Freetime, Ingognito. Wow. You just keep getting better and better.
They all just blew my mind as a young saxophonist, and the bouncy, bright, cool, smooth energy you put out through your music helped me keep my sanity through the turmoils of high school. We won State Jazz Band Champions my Senior Year (I'd finally made it to "First Chair") and your melodies were in my headphones (Remember the Sony Walkman?) on every bus trip the band took, both for Jazz competitions and Marching Band too.
Your music kept my heart light, my mind clear, my toes tapping, and my fingers itching to slide over the pearls of my beloved King Marigaux. You were an integral part of my teen-age years, and a fundamental part of my development as a musician--and as a leader in our band organizations.
Thanks for the years of inspiration! I wouldn't be the man I am today--strong, confident, sensitive, creative, and positive--without your wonderful melodies...
great comment!
Super cool! They(Spyro) were an inspiration to a lot of us.
❤🎼❤
Bought this album when it first came out, I was 12. This track obviously magnificent. Last month my 9 year old started the sax, he loves it. Played him this, with 'Keep practicing son, and maybe one day....'
Slight tear in my eye. 😊
Spyro Gyra has good music that your son can practice to, so he's on the right track.
Lord. I had t be around the same age. I have been Youtubing several of Spyro Gyra's tunes and it's amazing what the mind forgets. The "sound" just touches my soul, man! My spirit misses great music like this.
🎶🎵👌
Magnificent 💯☝️
Awwwwwww....bless you...He will go far.. One day your son will make his name for playing the best sax too❤
My mother passed away in January of 2021. It was a Saturday. I woke up and peeped in on her to see if she was still awake, because she was battling dementia, and a few urinary tract infections. That morning, I popped in this CD and went to work, and this song came on, then I get a text to come back home because my mom had passed away, so this song has a lot of meaning to me. I'm so happy that this band came about years ago, and made such a beautiful song, and it compliments my mother. Life has been so sweet since my mom has left physically, but mentally, she hasn't left, so thanks to Spyro gyra for making something years ago, and still applies to every day life.👍👍👍💟👍💟💟👍💟
Peace be with you. Take care.
@@DavidThomas-lt4pj thanks. My days have been so much sweeter! Simply because of im happy to have been her son, and will carry her positive energy every day. No need to feel sad, or mope around. 🙂🙂.👍👍⭐⭐
Sorry to hear about your loss...A brotherly hug from Italy
@@Burt472 no problem.. its all good!! Its as if she hasn't gone. Life is still sweet. I guess it's the positive vibe she left on me. Some of my family members cry from time to time, but I haven't shed 1 tear yet. Some people take a passing away differently. I use it as motivation..🙆♂️👍👍🙂🙂🙂
Love what you have written Silver Surfer. My father passed away last September and today is the first time I have listened to this song, which was always a favourite. . Sunny morning here in Leighton Buzzard UK, (38 miles north of London)
I was a high school trumpet player in 79 in Texas. I convinced my friends to do a road trip to Austin to see these guys in the old Armadillo, which is gone now. Jay let me play a set with the group. He slapped my back and said good job kid. My jazz band did some Spyro Gyra at the state jazz band competition. The judges were all messed up. What, no Big Band tunes? That was funny. Jay was a fantastic guy. He really encouraged the young people to get out and do their thing.
What! As a high school kid you played alongside Jay Beckenstein? Bro, congratulations!!!!!!! He’s one of my favorites, and no way was i ever good enough to perform at that level. I’m impressed! Great memories, thnx for the story.
I was also in the band in high school :) saw them in Corpus Christi with the photog from the school newspaper. Every time I hear the music I'm right back there. Sorry about your good friend.
This album was my introduction to smooth jazz. I've been a Spyro fan ever since.
Same here!!
I keep thinking of Spyro the Dragon
This has to be Spyrogyra at their coolest best..Catch the Sun before the Morning Dance...if you catch the drift that is ! Love it ❤
I also love Song for Lorraine, and It Doesn't Matter..
It is his best. The rest is just soft jazz. SG is an over statement.
A Spyro Gyra is a microscopic single-celled organism. Oh!, it's also a very good contemporary Jazz band.
Thanks from Italy for sharing..I have to admit I wasn't aware of that
Lol😂really?
@@chaplainmattsanders4884 Yes, really.
I bought this record upon its release. It was lost in time. I was overjoyed to recover it on this forum. It has always brought peace on stormy days and unbridled joy on fantastic days. I thank the members of this band. I pray that your lifes received the pleasure and reassurance that you gave me for almost 50 years and whatever I have left.
Was in highschool, band director wanted to get a jazz band within the marching band. Several of us said let's do it. We started listening to different musicians. This album was one he brought for us. Been hooked ever since.
Had the good fortune of seeing them live..they just blew the roof off.tighter than a clock.no doubt they had played together a long time.some serious musical communication going on.
Smooth jazz is the best and Spyro Gyra are one of those perfect examples of it, especially with "Catching The Sun."
morning dance for me. the way catching the sun starts reminds me of Hitchcock railway by Joe Cocker.
i agree you can either relax or get out on the dance floor and step by the way i am from Chicago lol
Spyro Gyra hit in the era of the Crusaders, George Benson, Chuck Mangione, Bob James, et al. Their sound raised the standards for smooth jazz to come.
Feel sorry for this generation s music, they really dont know what music is all about
@@GeorgeFranquiz Me over here... Listening to this.
Two others of the early so-called smooth jazz players were David Sanborn and John Klemmer. However, after this first group of players of the genre I came to detest some of the followers.
@@Ewerb7 Smooth jazz has been snooZZZe jazz since the late 90s. Pickings are slim for quality modern jazz. I was listening to 70s and 80s Japanese jazz fusion and that stuff blows away any of the stuff the jazz stations play now.
Grover Washington Jr is likely rolling in his grave as the genre he helped create got turned into soulless, repetitive, commercialized noise. Acid jazz is probably the last form of modern jazz not totally contaminated. That and Latin jazz, although Bossa Nova isn't in vogue now.
@@GeorgeFranquiz you've clearly never heard of Kamasi Washington or Esperanza Spalding
今から45年も前、就職して最初の赴任先で出社する前の時間聴いて気持ちを奮い立たせていたのを思い出します。
いつも良い気分にしてくれたスパイロジャイラは今でも僕のメンタルコンディショナーですね。
Just such nice tasty lines of music... easy to take..all solos well thought out.. nobody tries to overplay.
mellow
This was my introduction to jazz in 1988. Been hooked since 😀
This music saves me from homesickness during my time working in middle east i dont know, there is magic in their music
On a record,it can't be matched,warm , intense, soothing 😎
I love this album, Carnaval and Morning Dance. They bring back great memories of a simpler time and remind me of my deceased Dad who was that cool guy hip to the latest sounds of the time.
Great memories Chris! I have my dear Dad to blame, for being a music head also! 😢❤
Bought this album when I was 15. Got me started into fusion jazz! Listening to this brings back lots of memories playing LPs in our hi-fi system.
I hear you
Peaked at No. 68 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1980. Some pretty damn good soft jazzy stuff! Very nice and well performed.
It was nice how diverse in genres the Top 100 used to be.
I was going to college in New Orleans, because I graduated from high school in May 1979. I was already there, listening to Spyro Gyra. Besides loved loved local bands, especially if played anywhere near the uptown college and universities district. I remember one my roommates and I loved, called "The Sheiks". Lead singer wore long scarves head coverings giving theme to the name of the band. All the girls liked him, and he liked the girls. We were groupies too for a while. Just loved live performances, and could dance, and usually no cover charges. Money from drinks.
Memories of a concert at Castle Clinton In lower Manhattan, with the sun hanging lower in the sky. It was beautiful!
Reminds me of the golden years of my teen life when i started to appreciate good music... May they make more music like this
I saw Spyro Gyra perform this at the ‘92 UK Capital Radio Jazz Festival. Their instruments were stuck in transit at the airport so the band had to borrow instruments to play their set. It still sounded great! Halcyon days.🌞👍🇬🇧🙏🌞
The best early morning music to listen to
Exactly! It gets me going, happy, a pep in the step.
My favorite Spyro Gyra Album is definitely "Incognito!", but I like to listen to many Spyro Gyra joints from many of their other Albums. They are also my favorite Jazz group!
All spyros albums are great but my favourite is definitely Freetime.
another album of spyro is "FREE TIME" check it out...
My fave being Point of view 1989
Long time fan! I first heard this on a friend's stereo. Been a fan ever since. They are the Essence of the Smooth Jazz genre' !!! Viva Spyro Grya!!!!
1981, I was a sophomore in high school and I was in the marching band and jazz band. Had a friend named Ricardo and he was the main drum set player. I would always ask him if I could play lead for this song and after quite a bit of convincing(begging), he finally let me. Great song.
In 81 I was a junior AND the drummer in our jazz band. We played Spyro (this and Morning Dance), Chick Correa (La Fiesta... what a tough SOB at speed to play!!), some Steely Dan (Black Cow among others), a ton of Maynard Ferguson stuff.
We even got him to come to our school to put on a concert... so many car washes and bake sales for that one!!! But it was damn worth it.)
Ahh the memories of 81...
That was also the year our matching band won the state of Arizona marching band competition (yes I was in that too).
We were only Double A going up against the 4A's and 5A schools out of Phoenix and Tucson... but we were flat out badassery that year.
Never to repeat that feat ever again.
Yeah.... badassery!! 😅😅
Spyro Gyra. At the Greek. Under the stars. Unequaled.
Jazzfunk at its finest. Soul cleansing.
Hi Jay, discovered your 'Smooth Jazz' type music in the mid 80's when I was in my early 20's and whilst my tastes have changed over the years...this, Morning Dance and some of the early albums are still my all time fav songs. Many thanks and cheers from Australia.
this is the song that got me hooked on smooth jazz all them years ago ☮️
I was working in construction and going to college at the same time then I met Debbie and everything became easy and wonderful. Thank Spyro Gyra for being the soundtrack of my life.
Eating lavish dishes, at a terrace restaurant sipping bubbly overlooking the bay in Morocco
Memory of my dear departed Father... his favorite. For every mood..
Many thanks to the "Smooth Jazz" radio station back then, that got this ol' rock 'n' roller hooked on jazz music!! Absolutely great memories!
Spyro Gyra - BEST BAND
My parents were not at all into any kind of Jazz…and yet they did have a couple of instrumental albums in their collection. And this was one of them. (I actually listened to this entire LP (yes, vinyl!) before I even heard Morning Dance…and I first heard THAT on a SNL sketch with Tim Meadows called “Perspectives”!)
Absolutely love this band!
Caught Spyro Gyra live in Washington, D.C. during the 90's. It was an all day free concert.
The other performances included Brian Hughes, George Howard, WAR, and The Rippingtons.
fell in love with them when I saw them live at (if memory serves me correct) a free Concert in the Parks in Kansas City, Missouri WAY back before they rebuilt Brush Creek at the Plaza. Or...maybe I saw them at Volker Park concert venue... didn't matter where! It's been love ever since! ❣👍
I go back many years when I listen to this. 😢
My late godmother Sue, was a huuuuuge fan.
I never apprecated them until recently . Killer band ❤❤❤❤
Once saw this group on stage b4 a McCoy Tyner concert, they absolutely blew me away particularly the alto sax man!!!!!
MY FAVORITE WAKEUP SONG LOADED WITH LOVE AND KISSES ❤
'm a big fan. These guys play with a great feel for the groove. The saxophone is so lyrical with a warm sound. The arrangements are superb. This music never dates. It sounds as fresh as ever. I live in Melbourne, Australia. Spare a thought for me. The music pumping out of the PA systems in public spaces, every shop and every motor car here is a loud THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! or DOOF! DOOF! DOOF! Why can't it be this sort of music?
Remember this in the mid-80s, early morning background music for the Job Finder. Great easy listening Music!
Maybe my all time favorite song of theirs. Maybe. There's plenty others. Played this song on my trumpet in my jazz improv class in 82.
I am going to have to dig out my Catching The Sun album! I just loved Jay Beckenstein on the sax.
Não sei como dizer a alegria que esse grupo trás a minha vida, sinto paz, ouvindo essa linda música ❤
Sim, concordo....Um saludo de Italia....Amo Brasil...Ate' mais....Ciao
I remember listening to this album when I was a young teen back the late 90's, had it on record like so many other albums but this one always stuck with me.
They r classic. Saw them in BUFFALO N.Y. 76 IN A SM CLUB WAS 17
The first time I saw this band playing was in Norman, Oklahoma..I saw them twice the same night. It was around 1978 to 79; them, I saw them again several years after in Caracas, Venezuela..
One of my alltime fave piece of my alltime band the Spyro gyra!!!
Ah!! Oxigeno puro para mis sentidos la agrupación SPYRO GYRA que conoci allá por 1980 con esta agradable y fina melodia del Jazz contemporáneo. No por nada ellos siguen siendo uno de mis grandes grupos favoritos del Jazz and New age music, adoro su musica, Gracias por compartir. Gracias y que vivan muchos años mas los integrantes de este gran grupo que ya no los volví a ver desde el Verano de 1992 cuando vinieron al auditorio nacional en al Cuidad de México saludos a todos en este canal....
Una bella canción. Me trae recuerdos de los viajes realizados con mi esposa e hijos a Florida. Los videos, con las diferentes facetas y formas de ser de cada uno.
CLASSIC MASTERPIECE
Grazie per l'amore che mi diede questa musica con il sassofono, che ripresi a suonare dopo un periodo nero, mi diede una scossa con le audiocassette e il mio ritrovato sassofono, grazie e per sempre!
Love, love this song. Had the album back in the 80s. Morning dance was on there too. Serius XM watercolors plays this quite often. Only channel I listen too! Who's with me!?!?
The first album with music like this i bought in 1982-83. It changed my life to the better. Along with a few other albums by Spyro Gyra, like Freetime and Incognito , they was a huge inspiration for me. I hope they we get all their albums on Spotify soon.
Spiro Gyra, es un excelente grupo de jazz, me fascina la fusión con lo latino y funk. Saludos desde el Ecuador 🇪🇨
Saludos desde MEXICO Xavier , felicitaciones por tu buen gusto A SOMOS DOS...
one of the best fusion instrumental music
Listening to this makes me wonder... Why does smooth jazz get such hate, when tunes like this, are so beautiful?
I wouldn’t say “hate” but misunderstood! Jazz is varied; smooth jazz, funk jazz, fusion, hard bop, etc. so many are not familiar with this...so they don’t appreciate this genre and sub-genre of music 🎶
@@carlclarke5351 Very true!
Because it's usually not very good, artistically. This song, for instance, lack an expressive red thread. Its different parts or themes sound glued togehter for no apparent reason. There are exceptions though, like the fantastic Pat Metheny group, Al Jarreau, Randy Crawford, even some of Yellow Jacket's output, and so on.
One of my favorite artist.
Good nostalgia here. I played in my high school jazz/stage band and on into college. But our band director was also a professional sax player... (still is actually).. and he always played with us. We did quite a bit of Spiro Gyra. We were a little ambitious. 😅 We were pretty good, though, and asked to perform at a lot of different places.
Had to hum this in Google to find it!!!! What a track. Summer in the tropics, on a loaded bus, in a loaded town...in a loaded street, wherever it was, it was loaded a fun...afternoons spent in deep chill
Pleasant an diluted jazz. A good arrangement.
Memories of my late husband 💘. He was a big fan of Spyro Gyro
Heard this live in Rockford, IL at Charlotte's Web before it was released.
heard it first when I was in Riyadh, saudi arabia , love all of the music of Spyro gyra
These guys and Koinonia really make music that makes me smile broadly.
Recuerdo haberlos visto en el auditorio nacional de la Ciudad de México 1992, que gran recuerdo.
Yo también los fui a ver Alfredo estuve ahí esa noche que vino También Groover Whasington jr.. Saludos desde el sureste de Mexico
Before moving back to the Midwest ...I "caught the sun" in Southern California for 25 years with this part of the soundtrack for my life and times back then.
This was the first song I heard driving in Windsor Canada in the mid 80’s. Now I own four cds and enjoy relaxing to Spyro Gyra 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Perfect to hear while on a boat in ear the Sydney harbor bridge or near the opera house ❤yea I’ve been to Sydney late December 2017 to January 13th 2018 and loved it. USA New Jersey here
I'M LUCKY I HAVE 15 OF THEIR ALBUMS SIGNED BY THE BAND MEMBERS TO ME SOME I SHARED ON FACEBOOK AS A TRIBUTE TO THE LEGENDARY GROUP
Cuando Venezuela era otra, tuve la fortuna y gusto de poder verlos y escucharlos en vivo, en el teatro Altamira, sitio donde también se presentaron Chick Corea, Maynard Ferguson, Irakere y otros tantos más...
Smooth Jazz in the late 70's !
Always loved this. So grateful for the posting. Very joyous and uplifting
Music to put you in a great mood always.
Amazing band !! I really thank God for having discovered after so many years bands like this, from this remote place that is Argentina I am a fervent lover of jazz fusion, a shame not to be able to enjoy them live in my country, since I learned that they were here in my country several years ago ...
Update... 2024, and life is still wonderful... thanks for the positive comments.. I'm loving life more than ever, and the family is still together and more positive 👍👍👍👍
love this music
I listen ro this after a long and stressful day. BEST THERAPY EVER!
This song got played quite often on this one radio station in my area back when I was a teenager. I haven't heard it in years, but I knew it was somewhere out there. I'm so glad that I found it here on UA-cam.
Let's keep it simple. This is simply the best!
I have loved you guys ever since your start! Your bro gave us your demo record with original artwork before being released and fell in love. Have seen you many times in concert! My ex stole the album from me!!! darn... keep on making great music!
I heard them live a couple month ago at the Bethesda theater, they are a fantastic group still Jay Beckenstein sounds mostly the same maybe a bit darker nowadays. The problem I had was that the audio crew had the everything way too loud for an indoor dinner venue with decibels reaching 100db, that was from the middle row. Make sure to go see them at an outdoor venue!
Real Music!!! Masterpiece!!!
Sound mix is perfect, and that sax too!!
Saw the boys in the Cork jazz festival Amazing.. Met the man in person what a legend... Keep on jamming Jay.. Deny in Ireland. 🎷
Very good melodies! City Kids is my joint! Great band! Jazz is always on time!
Takes me right back to 1980.
In 1992 I walked into a National Record Mart, anyone remember those?, and this was playing in the store. I asked Jo what is the name of that? Then I said I’ll take it. Never regreted buying this album.
I have this album on CD. Bought it years ago after I visited my uncle who was and still is a smooth Jazz fanatic. This song and morning dance are one of their best compositions .. my opinion
Brilliant, beautiful, bright morning swing ❤️
University of Alabama early 80s days, good times. Roll Tide!