Morning Dance

Spyro Gyra | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 6, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: AMHERST RECORDS
• ASIN: B000001O7W
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,681 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #5 in Music > Indie Music > Jazz > Jazz Fusion

Editorial Reviews

Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. BMG. 2008. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My intorduction to "smooth jazz".., January 22, 2005

By 

D. Kolton (The Great Northwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Morning Dance (Audio CD)

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 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smooth, undated, uplifting, beautiful jazz, August 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Morning Dance (Audio CD)

I heard the track "Morning Dance" at a jazz club several weeks ago and had to buy the album. I was not dissapointed. This album was originally released in 1979 but the music is still as fresh 20 years down the road. The melodies are simply superb. If you're a jazz fan and you don't own this album, rectify the situation now.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic Latino-Styled Club Fusion Jazz Album, April 23, 2000

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Michel (Bombay, Maharashtra India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Morning Dance (Audio CD)

This is by far one the best and most acclaimed albums by SG. For many, it is the definitive sound of SG and it never got better than this. It is a serious fusion of beach-side Latino, with NY funk and enough smooth for it to be a viable record in the morning, afternoon or late night. The stand out tracks includes "Morning Dance", "Starburst", "Rasul" and Jay Beckenstein's mom-tribute song "Song For Lorraine". The good thing about this album is that it always lifts you up with its catchy jazz riffs and hooks. It almost as if they approached the album with a `pop hook' sensibility. However, with helping hands from the Becker Brothers, the album is not ion the least bit frivilious when it comes to musical depth and content. The album opens with "Morning Dance", a tune that immediately takes you away to a sunshine `n' sand beach, with icy Pina-coladas and beautiful ladies. Mind you, not hot `n' lustful ladies but beautiful ladies. That is the SG difference. Thereafter the album is just smooth and easy with the beautiful ballad `Rasul' adding color and emotional depth to it.