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Spyro Gyra
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
1.1730
Spyro Gyra Album Rankings
1
An excellent live double album, it includes live versions of songs from early albums.
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2
Spyro Gyra mostly sticks to their formula of danceable melodic music on this GRP release but there are a few temporary departures.
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3
When you consider that 1979 was the year that launched Spyro Gyra onto the pop charts with their number one hit "Morning Dance," for what was essentially a new style of jazz, their achievements seem
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5
There are a few departures from their previous efforts on this Spyro Gyra CD.
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6
Spyro Gyra's first album for MCA after their longtime label, GRP-Crescendo, was absorbed into its corporate parent, 1990's Fast Forward carries the curious band subtitle "featuring Jay Beckenstein.
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9
Featured is great songwriting and playing, and nice work by keyboardist Tom Schuman.
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10
An album with more midtempo jazz-style tunes and nice arrangements, it features Julio Fernandez and synth programming by Eddie Jobson.
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11
A nice mix of jazz, with tenor and soprano sax melodies that really sing.
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12
1985 reissue of an early hit album.
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13
There's a bit of snake oil in the smooth jazz of Spyro Gyra . Like the hawker who used to stand on street corners selling patent medicines, their new album is slick and breezy.
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14
1998's Rites of Summer is the album on which Spyro Gyra once and for all abandons every pretense toward being anything other than a slickly commercial instrumental pop outfit with occasional feints t
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15
1989's Point of View is a much more up-tempo collection than Spyro Gyra had delivered on their last several albums; only Dave Samuels' lovely vibes- and percussion-enhanced "Riverwalk" counts as a ba
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16
As boring and formula-driven as Spyro Gyra has often been in the studio, the band's live shows of the 1980s and 1990s could be just the opposite -- exciting, loose and spontaneous.
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18
A slightly sharper edge surfaces in Spyro Gyra's second effort for the Telarc-affiliated Heads Up label.
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19
Maybe things were simpler in the Seventies, when the birth of what we now call contemporary jazz or pop instrumental really occurred.
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20
Although Spyro Gyra's late-'70s instrumental pop chart hit "Morning Dance" is always credited by some for opening doors for the genre that folks would later call smooth jazz, this 16-track compilatio
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23
One among many similar-sounding but highly popular albums by premier fusion ensemble Spyro Gyra.
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