City Kids (album)
1983 studio album by Spyro Gyra
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City Kids is the seventh album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1983. At Billboard magazine, it reached No. 66 on the Top 200 Albums chart,[2] and No. 2 on that magazine's Jazz Albums chart.
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| Released | 1983 | |||
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| Genres | Jazz, jazz fusion | |||
| Length | 42:03 | |||
| Label | MCA | |||
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Track listing
All tracks are written by Jay Beckenstein except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "City Kids" | Tom Schuman | 5:11 |
| 2. | "Serpent in Paradise" | 4:45 | |
| 3. | "A Ballad" | 5:42 | |
| 4. | "Nightlife" | Jeremy Wall | 4:32 |
| 5. | "Islands in the Sky" | Wall | 6:44 |
| 6. | "Conversations" | Schuman | 5:34 |
| 7. | "Silver Linings" | 4:36 | |
| 8. | "Haverstraw Road" | 5:00 |
Personnel
Spyro Gyra
- Jay Beckenstein – alto saxophone (1, 2, 4, 7, 8), soprano saxophone (2, 3, 5, 6), Lyricon (2, 3)
- Tom Schuman – electric piano (1, 5–7), synthesizers (1, 2, 5–7), acoustic piano (7)
- Jeremy Wall – acoustic piano (4), synthesizers (4, 5)
- Chet Catallo – guitars (1–3, 5, 8), guitar solo (7)
- Kim Stone – bass (1)
- Eli Konikoff – drums (1)
- Gerardo Velez – percussion (1, 5, 7)
- Dave Samuels – vibraphone (3, 5, 6), marimba (4–6)
Guest musicians
- Jorge Dalto – acoustic piano (3)
- Richard Tee – electric piano (4, 8), acoustic piano (8)
- Hiram Bullock – guitars (2, 4, 7)
- Steve Love – guitars (2, 4, 5, 8), guitar solo (2, 4), acoustic guitar (7), electric guitar (7)
- Will Lee – bass (2, 4)
- Eddie Gómez – bass (3, 6)
- Marcus Miller – bass (5, 7, 8)
- Steve Jordan – drums (2, 4, 7)
- Steve Gadd – drums (3, 5, 6, 8), percussion (4, 8)
- Manolo Badrena – percussion (2, 3, 5, 6), congas (3, 5)
- Rob Zantay – Lyricon programming
Horn section
- Jeremy Wall – arrangements and conductor
- Jay Beckenstein – alto saxophone
- Lou Marini – tenor saxophone
- Dave Bargeron – trombone
- Alan Rubin – flugelhorn, trumpet
- Lew Soloff – flugelhorn, trumpet
Production
- Jay Beckenstein – producer
- Richard Calandra – producer
- Jeremy Wall – assistant producer (1, 6)
- Tom Schuman – assistant producer (1, 6)
- Michael Barry – engineer, mixing
- John Penzotti – assistant engineer
- Bob Troeller – assistant engineer
- Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk (New York, NY)
- George Osaki – art direction
- Michael G. Cobb – cover illustration