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Fourplay and Spyro Gyra at Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre At The Count Basie Center For The Arts
Courtesy of Michael Ricci | Posted on January 28, 2015
Where
Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre At The Count Basie Center For The Arts
99 Monmouth Street
Red Bank, NJ
Map
732.842.9000
When
Thu, April 16, 2015
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Fourplay
band / ensemble / orchestraSpyro Gyra
band / ensemble / orchestraBob James
pianoJay Beckenstein
saxophoneNathan East
bassHarvey Mason
drumsChuck Loeb
guitarTom Schuman
keyboardsLee Pearson
drumsAbout
Tickets: $79, $59, $49, $30
For two decades, the contemporary jazz quartet known as Fourplay has enjoyed consistent artistic and commercial success by grafting elements of R&B, pop and a variety of other sounds to their unwavering jazz foundations. In the course of a dozen recordings – six of which have climbed to the top of Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Album charts – the supergroup has continued to explore the limitless dimensions and permutations of jazz while at the same time appealing to a broad mainstream audience.
Spyro Gyra is a jazz juggernaut who released their 30th album of new material The Rhinebeck Sessions in 2013, which Jazztimes called "inspired". Theirs is an unlikely story of a group with humble beginnings in Buffalo, NY who has continued to reach an international audience over nearly forty years, resulting in sales of over 10 million albums and having played over five thousand shows on five continents. They have accomplished this due to a forward looking approach combined with the work ethic of an underdog, always challenging themselves to do something new while never resting on past success. It has proven to be a recipe for longevity for this jazz group while music has gone in and out of styles in ever shorter cycles. 2014 marks forty years from their start in a Buffalo club where they were first known as "Tuesday Night - Jazz Jam."...