Spyro Gyra - Catching the Sun
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Artist: Spyro GyraEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-06-07
Music Label: Amherst Records
Soundtracks:
- Catching The Sun
- Cockatoo
- Autumn Of Our Love
- Laser Material
- Percolator
- Philly
- Lovin' You (Interlude)/Lovin' You
- Here Again
- Safari
Free Music Notes for Catching the Sun
Free Music Review: Pure nostalgia!
Hit: 5 Stars
Spyro Gyra's 1980 release "Catching The Sun" could be heard blaring from radios, record and electronic stores all over Lagos back in the day, when it first came out. You didn't have to be a jazz fan to love it. After years of playing it close to death on vinyl, this is another one I finally got round to getting on CD.
I personally feel these were the best days of saxophonist Jay Beckenstein and his band of merry men. They were certainly my favourite days, with this album alongside other classics like Freetime, Incognito, Alternating Currents, Breakout, Point of View and their great live album, Access All Areas. (A lot of Spyro Gyra fans have love for Morning Dance but I don't. I find the versions of "Morning Dance" and "Heliopolis" on "Access All Areas" so much more satisfying and none of the other tunes on the album appeal to me at all).
Anyway, then came the 90s, the band line-up started to change and they kind of disappeared off my radar. I eventually summoned up the courage to buy 1999's Got the Magic but I've regretted it ever since and have yet to try any other of their newer releases. I doubt I ever will.
My favourite tunes on here remain the title track (I've now got a digitally remastered version, according to the CD cover), "Cockatoo", "Autumn Of Our Love", "Laser Material", "Here Again" and "Safari".
Classic 80s jazz-fusion. For me, this album is pure nostalgia!
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