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.
