City Kids (Spyro Gyra album)
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City Kids is the seventh 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 1983 (see 1983 in music
1983 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1983.-January-April:*January – ZTT Records is founded.*January 8 – The UK singles chart is tabulated from this week forward by The Gallup Organization...

).

Track listing

  1. "City Kids" (Tom Schuman) - 5:11
  2. "Serpent In Paradise" (Jay Beckenstein) - 4:45
  3. "A Ballad" (Jay Beckenstein) - 5:42
  4. "Nightlife" (Jeremy Wall) - 4:32
  5. "Islands in the Sky" (Jeremy Wall) - 6:44
  6. "Conversations" (Tom Schuman) - 5:34
  7. "Silver Linings" (Jay Beckenstein) - 4:36
  8. "Haverstraw Road" (Jay Beckestein) - 5:00

Personnel

  • Jay Beckenstein
    Jay Beckenstein
    Jay B. Beckenstein is a saxophone player, smooth jazz artist and together with Jeremy Wall founded Spyro Gyra...

    : Alto and soprano saxophones
  • Tom Schuman: Electric piano synthesizers
  • Jeremy Wall
    Jeremy Wall
    Jeremy Wall is a musician, and along with Jay Beckenstein, he was a founding member of the jazz fusion band Spyro Gyra. He contributed to the group as a pianist, producer, and composer. He is currently an assistant professor in the Music Industry department at SUNY Oneonta.-Background:Wall formed...

    : Piano and synthesizers
  • Jorge Dalto: Piano
  • Richard Tee
    Richard Tee
    Richard Tee was a pianist, studio musician, singer and arranger.Tee graduated from the High School of Music and Art and attended the Manhattan School of Music. Though better known as a studio and session musician, Tee led a jazz ensemble, the Richard Tee Committee, and was a founding member of the...

    : Piano
  • Will Lee
    Will Lee
    Will Lee was an American actor best known for playing the store proprietor Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street, from the show's debut in 1969 until his death in 1982.-Early career:...

    : Bass
  • Eddie Gomez
    Eddie Gomez
    Edgar "Eddie" Gómez is a Puerto Rican jazz double bassist born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, perhaps most notable for his work done with the Bill Evans trio from 1966 to 1977.-Biography:...

    : Bass
  • Marcus Miller
    Marcus Miller
    Marcus Miller is an American jazz composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Miller is best known as a bassist, working with trumpeter Miles Davis, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonist David Sanborn, as well as maintaining a prolific solo career...

    : Bass
  • Steve Love: Guitar and guitar solos
  • Chet Catallo: Guitar
  • Hiram Bullock
    Hiram Bullock
    Hiram Law Bullock was an American jazz funk and jazz fusion guitarist.He was born in Osaka, Japan to African American parents serving in the U.S. Military. At the age of two he returned to Baltimore, Maryland with his parents, and quickly showed a prodigious musical talent...

    : Guitar
  • Steve Jordan
    Steve Jordan (musician)
    Steve Jordan is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, musical director and Grammy Award-winning artist, who has made a name for himself as a producer from the Bronx in New York City. A graduate of the Fiorello H...

    : Drums
  • Gerardo Velez: Percussion
  • Manolo Badrena
    Manolo Badrena
    Manolo Badrena is a percussionist most noted for his work with Weather Report from 1976 to 1977. He has made contributions to over 100 recordings that span jazz, world music, pop, and Latin music...

    : Percussion
  • Dave Samuels: Vibraphone and marimba
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