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Jay Beckenstein (born May 14, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York) is saxophone player and founder of Spyro Gyra. He also owns a studio in New York called BearTracks Studios. May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (135th in leap years). ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Brooklyn (named for the Dutch city Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. ... NY redirects here. ... The saxophone (colloquially referred to as sax) is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece like the clarinet. ... Spyro Gyra is an American jazz fusion band that was originally formed in the early 1970s. ... BearTracks Studios is a recording studio complex in Suffern, NY, owned by Jay Beckenstein of Spyro Gyra. ...


He also 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 Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory. He also played a solo part in "Take Away My Pain" on the live album Once in a Livetime. Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music which shares traits with progressive rock including use of complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing. ... Dream Theater is a progressive metal band formed by three students at the Berklee College of Music in 1985. ... Another Day is the second song and the first single from the Dream Theater Album Images and Words. ... Images and Words is the second album by progressive metal band Dream Theater. ... Once in a LIVEtime is a 2CD live album by progressive metal band Dream Theater, recorded at the Bataclan in France and released in 1998. ...


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Jay Beckenstein and his cohorts in Spryo Gyra are built for endurance.
Jay's alto sax is complimented and augmented by the presence of Julio Fernandez (guitars), Scott Ambush (bass), Tom Schuman (keyboards) and Ludwig Afonso (drums).
As co-founder and saxman extraordinaire Beckenstein put it, "We've only had one hit in 26 years." True, but the large crowd gathered on the lawn of Wendy's International Headquarters could have cared less as they found the band's exploration of their 30-year career of making music to be both pleasing and satisfying.
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