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Drummer and songwriter who joined Spyro Gyra during the recording of 1979’s Morning Dance, supplanting Ted Reinhardt. He remained with them through the 1984 live album, Access All A reas. He co-penned “Cockatoo”, which appeared on Catching the Sun, one of two LPs they issued in 1980.
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Saxophonist Jay Beckenstein and keyboardist Jeremy Wall formed a band with jazz and rock musicians who were playing in the Buffalo bar and club circuit. In 1974, when a bar owner asked for the band's name, Beckenstein said, "spirogyra", a type of algae he had learned about in school. The bar owner wrote the name incorrectly, "Spyro Gyra", but it st...
When Infinity Records folded, Catching the Sun was released on MCA in February 1980, becoming the No. 4 jazz album of 1980, peaking at No. 31 in the UK, and No. 80 in Canada. This album included the first composition for the group by Tom Schuman, who would become a regular writer along with Beckenstein and Wall, while other band members also contri...
Percussionist Marc Quiñones joined the group for Fast Forward (1990), though it would be his only album as a band member, and the last album for Richie Morales and Jay Azzolina. In 1990 the group performed temporarily without a guitarist, and with Tony Cintron replacing Morales on drums. [citation needed] Guitarist Julio Fernández rejoined the band...
Drummer Joel Rosenblatt left the band during the making of The Deep End, leaving room for two other drummers, guest Billy Kilson and Ludwig Afonso, who became Rosenblatt's replacement. The band's next album, 2006's Wrapped in a Dream, was the first Spyro Gyra album since 1990's Fast Forward to be nominated for a Grammy Award. It would be the band's...
19 de jun. de 2024 · Eli Konikoff, the Buffalo area's premiere Dixieland jazz band leader in the 1960s, died Monday (Jan. 8, 1996) in Buffalo General Hospital after a brief illness. He was 80.
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5 de dez. de 2017 · In any conversation with Eli Konikoff, the word "human" pops up with the regularity of sign posts on a highway.
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