"Spira invests his soprano with individual style accenting its intimately vocalic nature"
New Playground Stephane Spira (Spirajazz) by Donald Elfman New Playground is romantic music in the best and most lovely sense of the word. Saxophonist Stephane Spira, a French-born saxophonist now living in New York, offers a spirited and appealing program of originals reflecting a personal sense of love, of family, of parenthood (Spira became a father for the first time at age 51) and, naturally, of music. This recording is lyrical and sweet but never sappy. Spira invests hi