I have not heard, but I'm assuming Jay won't be solo touring to promote this cd due to time constraints, etc. Having said that is "Porky Pie Hat" the only live cut we'll ever hear when touring with SG? I can't imagine. I think "Black Market" would make a great live tune with Julio on the chanting/scat vocals. Julio would tear it up on "Monsoon" as well. This is a tough call and I would guess we won't hear any more songs because it would take away from the whole point of Jay's side project-a step away from SG. If Spyro Gyra started playing more cuts from Eye Contact I think it kind of diminishes the other musician's contributions to it.
I guess we are biased but Eye Contact is a great cd all the way through. Out 5 weeks now and Chicago's lame WNUA has yet to play a cut from it. WAKE UP!!!!!...and stop playing the Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Michael Bolton and the other Adult Contem. stuff. Don't call yourself a "Jazz" station if 40% of what you play is Adult Contemp!

SteveH . . .

I believe that Jay is going to be including some of the "Eye Contact" stuff on upcoming Spyro concert dates. I read this recently but can't remember when. Two sources for information on his "Eye Contact" release are the latest issue of Jazziz magazine and an online interview of Jay at the C-Jazz website:
http://www.contemporaryjazz.com.

Once there scroll down the screen until you see the message "Jeff Charney's extensive interview with Jay Beckenstein is here!" on the right side frame of the page. You can read a pretty long interview of Mr Spyro Gyra!

For the latest on Jay, please visit his site.
www.jaybeckenstein.com

I posted info about this subject in the thread "Recent Spyro Concert Info".

I saw the band on May 6th at Indian Canyons(Palm Spings CA).

The entire set list for both sets of the evening are posted there.

The third tune of the concert was "Sunrise".

The first tune of the second set was a Tom Schuman composition, "Groovin' For Grover"(penned in tribute to the late Grover Washington Jr.)

We then heard "Good Bye Porkpie Hat"...great rendition, Jay intense on a smokey tenor sax.

This was followed by an even better than the studio version "Monsoon". And you are correct, Julio stepped out with an almost David Gilmour-ish spacy and bluesy turn.

Jay said that to get a band together to play his solo stuff, and to try and squeeze in dates between Spyro shows would have been next to impossible, so he decided to promote it a bit at the Spyro shows. Plus, ther people who would be familiar with him would be a the concerts anyway. Not only that, Tom, Julio, Scott and Joel would not be out of work for months while Jay was off touring.

Makes perfect sense to me.

Peace!
Paul

Sorry, Paul. Missed that post.

I see that Jay's "Eye Contact" is at number 16 on Gavin's Chart. Apparently it is getting some attention from the music world.