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| A Night Before Christmas | 
 enlarge | Artist: Spyro Gyra
Label: Heads Up
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 19293
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 3145
UPC: 053361314521
EAN: 0053361314521
ASIN: B001DDBCXC
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | O Tannenbaum - Spyro Gyra, Traditional | | • | It Won't Feel Like Christmas - Spyro Gyra, Beckenstein, Jay | | • | Winter Wonderland - Spyro Gyra, Bernard, Felix | | • | Christmas Time Is Here - Spyro Gyra, Mendelson, Lee | | • | Baby It's Cold Outside - Spyro Gyra, Loesser, Frank | | • | Carol of the Bells - Spyro Gyra, Traditional | | • | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Spyro Gyra, Martin, Hugh | | • | The First Noel - Spyro Gyra, Traditional | | • | Silent Night - Spyro Gyra, Traditional | | • | This Christmas - Spyro Gyra, Hathaway, Donny | | • | The Christmas Song - Spyro Gyra, Torme, Mel |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
A Jazz twist for that magical night, The Night Before Christmas. Get into the holiday groove with Spyro Gyra, a jazz fusion band that was originally formed in the mid-1970s in Buffalo, New York, USA. Their music, which has been influential in the development of smooth Jazz as they combine Jazz with elements of R&B, Funk and Pop music. Although generally considered to be more "Jazz" than "smooth", Spyro Gyra's music emphasizes melody over improvisation. Catch the spirit of the season with Spyro Gyra!
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| Customer Reviews:
 It's About Time December 22, 2008
Finally, after more than 20 years of making wonderful music together, the best jazz fusion band ever has produced a Christmas album. If you like SG, you'll not be disappointed with this release.
The arrangements are superb and the performances are immaculate. The vocals are just great, with the possible exception of drummer Bonny's opening to "The Christmas Song." To me it is a silly bit of unneccesary nonsense, but many will probably like it.
The best vocal is Christine Ebersole's lovely interpretation of Jay Beckenstein's original "It Won't Feel Like Christmas." This promises to be an annual favorite, especially so long as we have loved ones apart at the Holidays. Bonny redeems himself well in his duet with singer Janis Siegel on "Baby It's Cold Outside", which is an excellent arrangement and a clever vocal counterpoint.
The other charts are typical SG, with interesting and clever reworks of familiar tunes, sparked with high quality playing by all members. As an extra treat, Dave Samuels returns for cameos on "Carol of the Bells" and "Winter Wonderland" - great to hear his fine vibes' work again.
Rhythmic, harmonious and excellent describes SG's work over all these years, and "A Night Before Christmas" fills in the missing niche exactly the same way.
Great Christmas Music, Amazing Musicianship! November 27, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Finally, a great collection of Christmas music from the legendary Spyro Gyra! I do love Christmas music and personally own several hundred CD's of Christmas music. As a musician, I have a high standard of quality that I want in this type of music. This is now one of my favorites. If just for the "cool" performances of "Carol of the Bells" & "The First Noel". I really like that this disc has a nice mix of sacred and secular melodies. The gem in the collection is Jay Beckenstein's "It Won't Feel like Christmas", sung beautifully by Christine Ebersole, it should be a "new classic". No other jazz group has put out such consistantly fine music for such a long period of time (almost 30 yrs). They are the best!
Spyro Christmas... November 12, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Excellent, as always. I love Christmas music and Spyro Gyra is one of my all-time favorite jazz groups so it was a no brainer for me. I think I might be the only person on the planet who didn't know Christine Ebersole could sing - not bad but I prefer these guys to stay instrumental, even though it's Christmas.
mixed feelings November 2, 2008
0 out of 15 found this review helpful
Spyro Gyra is my all time favorite band. however, I'm an atheist, and don't celebrate Christmas or any other religious holiday. but jazz Christmas music makes it tolerable.
 fair to so October 25, 2008
0 out of 16 found this review helpful
Id pass on this cd all together. Id stick non christmas cd you guys next time.
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