Access All Areas (Spyro Gyra album)
Encyclopedia
Access All Areas is the eighth studio album and first live album
by Spyro Gyra
, released in 1984 (see 1984 in music
).
The track "Old San Juan" originally opened the album, but it was not included on the CD due to a lack of space.
Live album
A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...
by Spyro Gyra
Spyro Gyra
Spyro Gyra is an American jazz fusion band that was originally formed in the mid-1970s in Buffalo, New York, USA. With over 25 albums released and 10 million copies sold, they are among the most prolific as well as commercially successful groups of the genre...
, released in 1984 (see 1984 in music
1984 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1984.-Janury-March:*January 21 – "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood reaches number one in the UK singles chart, despite being banned by the BBC; it spends a total of forty-two weeks in the Top 40.*January 27 – Michael Jackson's...
).
Track listing
- "Shaker Song" (Jay Beckenstein) – 7:14
- "Serpent In Paradise" (Beckenstein) – 5:56
- "Heliopolis" (Beckenstein) – 11:49
- "Harbor Nights" (Beckenstein) – 7:04
- "Conversations" (Tom Schuman) – 8:30
- "Schu's Blues" (Schuman) – 4:46
- "Morning Dance" (Beckenstein) – 5:37
- "Islands in the Sky" (Jeremy Wall) – 6:29
- "Sea Biscuit" (All Members) – 6:03
- "Latin Streets" (Jorge Dalto, Gerardo Velez) – 8:24
The track "Old San Juan" originally opened the album, but it was not included on the CD due to a lack of space.
Personnel
- Jay BeckensteinJay BeckensteinJay B. Beckenstein is a saxophone player, smooth jazz artist and together with Jeremy Wall founded Spyro Gyra...
– Yamaha soprano, alto and tenor saxophones - Tom Schuman – Yamaha CP-70, Memory Moog, Multi-Moog, Yamaha GS-2, ProphetV, Moog Liberation and DynaRhodes
- Chet Catallo – Gibson 335, Gibson 347, and a Gibson classical guitar
- Kim Stone – Fender Jazz Bass, an Aria electric bass and a 100 year old 3/4 scale acoustic bass
- Eli Konikoff – custom Yamaha drum kit with Zildjian cymbals
- Dave SamuelsDave SamuelsDave Samuels is an American vibraphone player who has worked with various jazz and fusion artists, such as Spyro Gyra. Currently, he plays in an ensemble called The Caribbean Jazz Project, a Grammy-winning jazz-Latin music group...
– Musser Pro 55 vibraphone and a custom Musser 250 marimba - Gerardo VelezGerardo VelezGerardo "Jerry" Velez is a Puerto Rican musician. Best known for performing with American psychedelic rock musician Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock Festival in August 1969, Velez is a veteran percussionist and drummer who has performed with many artists covering a number of different genres of music...
– Latin Percussion congas, timbales and hand-held percussion instruments