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Alto (and sometimes soprano) saxophonist Jay Beckenstein founded the highly successful crossover jazz outfit <a href="spotify:artist:1Be36RHAlqJpfUt3tsmUQD">Spyro Gyra</a> 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 <a href="spotify:artist:3ORmVjFB0S4gkfjxyRcNXo">Jeremy Wall</a>, moved to Buffalo, where Beckenstein studied music at SUNY-Buffalo. Beckenstein and <a href="spotify:artist:5thFnzn840WBNmYM7JwGqn">Wall</a> began to headline their own gigs around the city and that collaboration evolved into <a href="spotify:artist:1Be36RHAlqJpfUt3tsmUQD">Spyro Gyra</a>, 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, Rovi
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