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词条 Jay Beckenstein
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  1. Music career

  2. Discography

  3. References

  4. External links

{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Jay Beckenstein
| image = JayBeckensteinPerforming.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Beckenstein, Gulfstream Park, Hallandale, Florida
| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1951|5|14}}
| birth_place = Long Island, New York, U.S.
| genre = Smooth jazz, jazz fusion
| occupation = Musician, composer, producer
| instrument = Saxophone
| years_active = 1974–present
| label = Windham Hill
| associated_acts = Spyro Gyra, Bob James, Dream Theater, Jason Miles, Dave Samuels, Jeremy Wall, Tom Schuman
| website = {{URL|www.jaybeckenstein.com}}
}}Jay Beckenstein (born May 14, 1951, New York) is a saxophonist, composer, producer, and co-founder of the band Spyro Gyra. He owned BearTracks Studios in Suffern, New York.[1]

Music career

Jay Beckenstein was born in Long Island, New York to a Jewish family. His mother, Lorraine, was an opera singer and his father, Leonard, loved jazz and introduced him to Charlie Parker and Lester Young when he was a baby. He started playing the piano at age 5 when he moved to Farmingdale, New York. He was given his first saxophone at the age of 7. In his senior year of high school, he and his family moved to Germany. He attended and graduated from Nürnberg American High School in 1969. He has said that being Jewish in Germany was positive at the time. However, he has recalled that he once saw an old photo of an elderly neighbor in his SS Nazi uniform while visiting him and he never went back. He received a college degree in music from the University at Buffalo in 1973. Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie once played with the college band while Beckenstein was a band member.[2]

They soon recruited 16-year-old keyboardist Tom Schuman and recorded their debut album. However, due to lack of funds, the record was going to be their last album until they gave it away and sold 100,000 copies. From there, they got a deal and released their next album in 1979.

In 2000, Beckenstein released his first solo album, Eye Contact, which charted No. 23 on the Top Contemporary Jazz Albums.[3]

Beckenstein played the saxophone solo on American progressive metal band Dream Theater's "Another Day", from the album Images and Words and single version of song "Through her Eyes", from the album Scenes from a Memory. He also played a solo part in "Take Away My Pain" on the live album Once in a Livetime as well as "Another Day" during the performance of Scenes from New York.

Beckenstein is divorced and has three children.[2]

Discography

{{see also|Spyro Gyra#Discography}}Solo
  • 2000: Eye Contact (Windham Hill)
With Bob James
  • 1981 All Around the Town
  • 1981 Sign of the Times
  • 1982 Hands Down
With Dream Theater
  • 1992 Images and Words
  • 1993 Live at the Marquee
  • 1998 Once in a LIVEtime
  • 2000 Through Her Eyes
  • 2001 Live Scenes from New York
With Jason Miles
  • 1996 Mr. X
  • 2000 A Love Affair: The Music of Ivan Lins
  • 2000 Celebrating the Music of Weather Report
  • 2002 Brazilian Nights
  • 2002 To Grover, With Love
  • 2006 What's Going On?
With others
  • 1980 Orleans, Orleans
  • 1989 Away from Home, David Broza
  • 1990 Extremities, Tom Schuman
  • 1991 Natural Selection, Dave Samuels
  • 1995 Basia on Broadway, Basia
  • 1995 David Broza, David Broza
  • 1997 Deep in the Night, Rick Rhodes
  • 1999 Listen, Chuck Loeb
  • 1999 Somewhere in the Night, Mercedes Hall
  • 2001 Butterfly, Special EFX
  • 2002 Urban Life, The V.I.P. Club
  • 2003 In the Name of Love, Freddy Cole
  • 2012 The Fusion Syndicate, The Fusion Syndicate[4]

References

1. ^{{cite web|last1=Huey|first1=Steve|title=Jay Beckenstein {{!}} Biography & History {{!}} AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jay-beckenstein-mn0000809089/biography|website=AllMusic|accessdate=9 November 2016}}
2. ^{{cite news|last=Wang|first=K. S.|url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/beckenstein-60899-band-gyra.html|title=Smooth moves gave Spyro Gyra a future|date=October 27, 2005|publisher=ocregister.com|accessdate=January 26, 2014}}
3. ^{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQ8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA59 |title=Top Jazz Albums|date=May 27, 2000|publisher=billboard.com|accessdate=January 27, 2014}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Jay Beckenstein {{!}} Credits {{!}} AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jay-beckenstein-mn0000809089/credits|website=AllMusic|accessdate=9 November 2016}}

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060105024221/http://www.jaybeckenstein.com/ Jay Beckenstein official site]
  • Spyro Gyra official site
  • Huffington Post interview (2013)
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