Access All Areas (Spyro Gyra album) explained
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.[1]
Track listing
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
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
- 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
Notes and References
- Web site: Top 200 Albums. Billboard. 30 May 2017 . 15 September 1984.
