Innovative jazz with Spyro Gyra

The vibe will still be going strong when Spyro Gyra, one of the giants of jazz fusion, plays The Paramount in Huntington, on Friday, April 13, at 8 p.m.

After some 5,000 performances, 29 albums and nearly 40 years together, another band might be considered middle aged. But Spyro Gyra – with bandleader Jay Beckenstein, Julio Fernandez, Joel Rosenblatt, Scott Ambush, and Tom Schuman – is still in its prime and shows little sign of wanting to slow down either, gaining Grammy® nominations for each of their last four albums.

For more than three decades, the band has maintained a position at the forefront of modern jazz with several feats of creative dexterity. It started with Morning Dance, released in 1979, whose title track became a Top 40 single and proved to be the band’s breakout song. To this day, the Calypso-inspired track is still in heavy rotation on contemporary jazz stations.

At its heart, Spyro Gyra is just a bunch guys who love to play.

Tickets are $29.50, $39.50 and $69.50; available at (631) 673-7300 or (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com or www.paramountny.com.

The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington.