Three Wishes (Spyro Gyra album)
1992 studio album by Spyro Gyra
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Three Wishes is an album by the American jazz band Spyro Gyra, released in 1992 by GRP Records.[1][2]
- BearTracks Studios (Suffern, New York)
- Carriage House Studios (Stamford, Connecticut)
- Lighthouse Studios (Los Angeles, California)
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| Released | 1992 | |||
| Recorded | 1992 | |||
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| Genres | Jazz, smooth jazz | |||
| Length | 57:43 | |||
| Label | GRP | |||
| Producer | Jay Beckenstein | |||
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Production
The album was produced by Jay Beckenstein.[3] The band recorded the songs in less than a week, but spent two months in total working on Three Wishes.[4][5] There was more of an effort to record live in studio, after Beckenstein heard comments praising the band's live show over its albums.[6] Beckenstein also considered the songs on Three Wishes to be more thematically linked to each other rather than merely a collection of whatever songs the band had worked up.[7] "Jennifer's Lullaby" is dedicated to Stan Getz.[8]
Critical reception
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| Source | Rating |
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| The Indianapolis Star |  [10] |
The Washington Post deemed the album "a good deal less predictable and glossy than usual."[11] The Toronto Star wrote that "the veteran group is inoffensively competent, swings lightly despite the ugly rock 'n' roll drumming but contains about as much inspiration as a night watching Valium-powered TV soaps."[12] The Indianapolis Star determined that Three Wishes "is far more orchestrated than improvised, yet that keeps and perhaps deepens its entertainment edge."[10]
Track listing
- "Pipo's Song" (Julio Fernandez) – 4:53
- "Introduction to Breathless" (Jay Beckenstein) – 1:05
- "Breathless" (Beckenstein) – 5:19
- "Introduction to Real Time" (Dave Samuels) – 0:23
- "Real Time" (Samuels) – 3:56
- "Jennifer's Lullaby" (Beckenstein) – 5:40
- "Whitewater" (Beckenstein) – 6:12
- "Inside Your Love" (Jeremy Wall) – 4:07
- "Nothing to Lose" (Beckenstein, Fernandez) – 5:03
- "Three Wishes" (Beckenstein) – 4:47
- "Gliding" (Beckenstein, Samuels) – 4:50
- "Cabana Carioca" (Wall) – 5:18
- "Rollercoaster" (Tom Schuman) – 4:29
- "Three Wishes (reprise)" (Beckenstein) – 1:41
Personnel
Spyro Gyra
- Jay Beckenstein – saxophones
- Tom Schuman – keyboards
- Julio Fernández – guitars
- Scott Ambush – bass
- Joel Rosenblatt – drums
- Dave Samuels – vibraphone, marimba
Additional Personnel
- Sammy Figueroa – percussion
- Larry Williams – saxophones
- Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone, bass trumpet
- Gary Grant – trumpet
- Jerry Hey – trumpet, horn arrangements
Production
- Dave Grusin – executive producer
- Larry Rosen – executive producer
- Jay Beckenstein – producer
- Jeremy Wall – assistant producer
- Larry Swist – recording, mixing
- Kevin Becka – assistant engineer
- Tom Bender – assistant engineer
- Doug Rose – assistant engineer
- Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk (New York City, New York)
- Michael Pollard – GRP production coordinator
- Doreen Kalcich – production coordinating assistant
- Andy Baltimore – creative director
- David Gibb – graphic design
- Scott Johnson – graphic design
- Sonny Mediana – graphic design
- Andy Ruggirello – graphic design
- Dan Serrano – graphic design
- Emili Bogan – graphic design assistant
- Michael Cobb – front cover illustrations
- Frank Linder – photography