Morning Dance

Morning Dance Artist: Spyro Gyra
Label: Amherst Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 051617800828
EAN: 0051617800828
ASIN: B000001O7W


Release Date: 1994-06-07

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Listmania:

  1. In a Space Outta Sound
  2. Jammin and Trippin
  3. Lounge Trip and Smooth Jazz music
  4. turn up the sax
  5. music for chillin and groovin
  6. the trippy jazz world
  7. Give me something jazzy
  8. TripHop - Jazz mashup
  9. New and old Chill Jazz and Pop
  10. TripChillJazz

Tracks:

  1. Morning Dance
  2. Jubilee
  3. Rasul
  4. Song For Lorraine
  5. Starburst
  6. Heliopolis
  7. It Doesn't Matter
  8. Little Linda
  9. End Of Romanticism

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Classic Spyro Gyra!.......2007-01-30

I attended a Spyro Gyra concert at Chastain Park in Atlanta in 2006, and it was AWESOME. I remember Spyro Gyra but lost track of them for 25 years. What talented jazz musicians! I immediately bought this album and love it. This is all instrumental jazz, and it will blow your mind.

5 out of 5 stars Great Album!.......2006-10-30

Just picked this LP up in mint condition at a record shop in Troy NY for $2. Like many of the other reviewers, this is a smooth jazz/fusion classic with catchy tunes that was the forerunner to the sound of smooth jazz through the 80's and 90's. I especially like "End Of Romanticism" for the harder fusion sound. Great musicianship.

5 out of 5 stars Morning Jubilee!!!.......2005-10-11

No matter when or where I hear the title song of this album it always cheers me up.And I don't find it corny at all-sorry.Most of the music I love (Stevie Wonder,Donald Fagan even the Isley Brothers)are played in supermarkets now-this has almost the moment it came out.What a surprise listening to this entire album what a a diverse and even explosive band Spyro Gyra can be.The title track isn't indicative of 'Morning Dance' as a whole-"Jubilee" for example is full on polyrhythmic funky grooving with a KILLER bass line.The backbeat and the level of playing on "Rasul" is actually very conventionally jazzy and relaxed."Song For Lorraine" and "Starburst" actually both return to more funky grooves.On the second side of the album the musical environment changes yet again,this time to a more Brazillian percussion flavored fusion sound on "Heliopolis" and "End Of Romanticism",reminding us that depsite there place in the history of smooth jazz Spyro Gyra were at this point still holding very true to more improvosational jazz fusion and funk-the pop stuff was only secondary.To round things out "Little Linda" and "If It Doesn't Matter" both have the light tone of the title song.'Morning Dance' might very well be Spyro Gyra's best known recording and certainly is their signiture song.It's also a great album instroduction outside a best of.Alot of their best songs are here and the album is very consistant and almost intense at time.Well worth the effort to listen to!

5 out of 5 stars My intorduction to "smooth jazz".........2005-01-22

This was it -- THE smooth jazz ablum. Before Kenny G, before Richard Elliot, before (m)any of the others, this album defined the smooth jazz sound. And it is as fresh a sound today as it was when it came out -- really!

I can still hear the songs in my head just by reading the titles. It still feels like a fresh spring morning on an Italian terrace by the sea with the hummingbirds sweeping around you. And this is almost TWENTY FIVE years later.

This truly is a classic. I had to write as I just listened to it yesterday. What is old is new again, and like the first true love, this just never seems to lose it's lustre!

5 out of 5 stars Morning Dance.......2004-11-07

Morning Dance. The follow up to Spyro Gyra's debut album, Spyro Gyra. This time around, Spyro Gyra turned out a neat recording. One of their best! 25 albums later, and this one still stands out as a masterpiece. This album contains the song that made Spyro Gyra a house hold name; Morning Dance. It remains the only song played on the radio by Spyro Gyra. That, and an ocassional Shaker Song, and Catching The Sun. After the album opens up with the hit, it plunges into a great funk masterpiece; Jubilee. Nice tight grooves. Other neat songs are, the lightly swinging, Rasul, the very listener friendly, Song For Lorraine, Heliopolis, Chet Catallo's, It Doesnt Matter, and the energetic End Of Romanticism. This album had some of the greatest studio musicians around, playing on it. Pianst Jeremy Wall was the only official member who was playing on this album. Others were magnificent studio musicians who were around in New York at the time. Some have called this romantic music, others, tight jazz, but I just call it, a masterpiece!

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