STEPHANE SPIRA

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

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Stéphane Spira is a self-taught musician. He pursued an engineering degree, spent some time as an engineer in Saudi Arabia, then headed back to his hometown of Paris to pursue music full-time. Quite an interesting background! A traditionalist, Spira’s music and playing are both very centrist in style, but great fun to listen to. He is not, however, so much a swing or hard bop player as sort of a ‘60s cool-school sort of guy, and his compositions employ several of the traits o

Saxophonist and Composer Stephane Spira's success has not come easily or quickly. Stephane is self-taught while also pursuing an engineering degree. He worked as an engineer in Saudi Arabia and then in the 1990s he headed back to his hometown of Paris to pursue music full time. After 15 years of playing in Paris clubs and recording two albums, Spira decided to make a major life change by moving to New York City and start over. Rather than finding rejection in the sometim

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