The 3rd Annual Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards will pay tribute to one of the true Smooth Jazz supergroups - Spyro Gyra. Forming in Buffalo in the early seventies they defined American Jazz fusion. Today they are smooth, worldly and still on top of their game. Legends have a tendency to never look back.

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Spyro Gyra has an optimistic commitment to the present and future as it simultaneously celebrates 25 years of recording and its first release of the new millennium.

"We're grateful to still be going strong, we're feeling great about ourselves and we're all healthy and in a good frame of mind, so there's a lot to celebrate," says saxophonist Jay Beckenstein. "People are still eager to hear what we're doing, and they've allowed us to make music that's both fun and fulfilling.

Had filmmaker Ken Burns decided to address the last thirty years of contemporary jazz in his recent PBS documentary Jazz, the influence of Spyro Gyra on the past generation would have been hard to ignore. The band's story is one of modern music's most oft-told tales, beginning with Beckenstein leading a group of revolving musicians around the Buffalo jazz scene circa early '70s. More