Access All Areas (Spyro Gyra album)
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| Access All Areas | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | June 1984 | |||
| Recorded | November 17–19, 1983 | |||
| Venue | Florida | |||
| Genre | Jazz, fusion | |||
| Length | 85:09 / 76:49 (Digital) | |||
| Label | MCA | |||
| Producer | Jay Beckenstein, Richard Calandra | |||
| Spyro Gyra chronology | ||||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
Access All Areas is the first live album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1984 on double-LP vinyl, cassette tape, and CD. It reached No. 77 on the Top 200 album chart at Billboard magazine and No. 1 on that magazine's Jazz Albums chart.[2]
Track listing
[edit]| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Old San Juan" | Jay Beckenstein | 8:20 |
| 2. | "Shaker Song" | Jay Beckenstein | 7:14 |
| 3. | "Serpent in Paradise" | Jay Beckenstein | 5:56 |
| 4. | "Heliopolis" | Jay Beckenstein | 11:49 |
| 5. | "Harbor Nights" | Jay Beckenstein | 7:04 |
| 6. | "Conversations" | Tom Schuman | 8:30 |
| 7. | "Schu's Blues" | Tom Schuman | 4:46 |
| 8. | "Morning Dance" | Jay Beckenstein | 5:37 |
| 9. | "Islands in the Sky" | Jeremy Wall | 6:29 |
| 10. | "Sea Biscuit" | Jay Beckenstein, Tom Schuman, Chet Catallo, Eli Konikoff, Gerardo Velez, David Wofford | 6:03 |
| 11. | "Latin Streets" | Jorge D'Alto, Gerardo Velez | 8:24 |
Bold: Available only on Vinyl & Cassette releases, omitted on digital versions of the album, in effort to bring the original albums for the cost of a single CD; since it cannot surpass over 80 minutes long.
Personnel
[edit]Spyro Gyra
- Jay Beckenstein – alto and soprano saxophones
- Tom Schuman – Yamaha CP-70, Yamaha GS2, Dyno Rhodes, Prophet-5, Memorymoog, Multimoog, Moog Liberation
- Chet Catallo – electric guitars, classical guitar
- Kim Stone – bass guitars, acoustic bass
- Eli Konikoff – drums
- Dave Samuels – vibraphone, marimba
- Gerardo Velez – congas, percussion, timbales
Production
[edit]- Jay Beckenstein – producer
- Richard Calandra – producer
- Tom Schuman – assistant producer
- Jeremy Wall – assistant producer
- Michael Barry – engineer, mixing
- Guy Charbonneau – engineer at Le Mobile
- Cliff Bonnell – assistant engineer
- John Penzotti – assistant engineer, mix assistant
- BearTracks Studios (Suffern, NY) – mixing location
- Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk (New York, NY)
- George Osaki – art direction
- Jon Echevarrieta – design
- Michael G. Cobb – cover illustrations
- Yukio Ichikawa – inside cover photography
- Phil Brennan – management
Live personnel
- Brad Malkus – production manager, lighting designer
- Randy Schuld – monitor engineer
- Neil Stadtmiller – sound engineer
- Don Kurek – keyboard technician
- Richard Snedecker – truck driver
References
[edit]- ^ Kohler, Paul. "Access All Areas". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
- ^ "Top 200 Albums". Billboard. 15 September 1984. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
