Top Songs
- To Grover, With Love · 2002
- Eye Contact · 1999
- Eye Contact · 1999
- Eye Contact · 1999
- Sun Dance: Summer Solstice, Vol. 3 · 1999
- Celebrating The Music Of Weather Report · 2000
- Eye Contact · 1999
- Eye Contact · 1999
- Coast to Coast · 2004
- Eye Contact · 1999
- Eye Contact · 1999
- Eye Contact · 1999
- Eye Contact · 1999
Albums
- 1999
About Jay Beckenstein
Alto (and sometimes soprano) saxophonist Jay Beckenstein founded the highly successful crossover jazz outfit Spyro Gyra in 1974 and led the group throughout more than a quarter-century tenure. Beckenstein grew up in a musical family -- his mother was an opera singer, his father a jazz buff -- and began playing the saxophone at age seven, joining school bands and playing both jazz and R&B. After graduating high school, Beckenstein and his friend, keyboardist Jeremy Wall, moved to Buffalo, where Beckenstein studied music at SUNY-Buffalo. Beckenstein and Wall began to headline their own gigs around the city and that collaboration evolved into Spyro Gyra, which went on to a long, prolific, and successful career. In 2000, Beckenstein finally issued his very first solo album, a guest-studded affair titled Eye Contact. ~ Steve Huey
- HOMETOWN
- New York, NY, United States
- BORN
- May 14, 1951
- GENRE
- Jazz