Contemporary casual
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Dec; 2013
- ISBN:
- 0272-572
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Subject Term:
- 38: Jazz and blues, General, sound recordings, performing groups, jazz and blues, Spyro Gyra, The Rhinebeck sessions
- Notes:
- After nearly four decades as an entity, what does Spyro Gyra do for album number 30? The Rhinebeck sessions (Crosseyed Bear), assembled during a three-day recording sprint in the titular small town in the Hudson Valley, boasts the trademark Spyro Gyra sound: catchy melodies by founding saxophonist Jay Beckenstein, urgent funk and fusion grooves, nods to Caribbean rhythms. But there's a looser vibe to the music, more of an anything-goes feel than you find in most of the band's tightly arranged and carefully programmed material. The band explains that the effect was purely intentional.
