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"French-born, New York-based saxophonist Stéphane Spira uses his urban quartet to express music as darkly romantic and emotionally rich as a Paris scene at midnight.... Trained as an engineer, Spira is self-taught, but he's musically mature and his music is soulful.... Having dedicated himself exclusively to jazz since a final day job in the Arabian desert in the mid-'00s, Spira's evolution is one to watch." – Ken Micallef, DownBeat
