Access All Areas (Spyro Gyra album)

Access All Areas
Live album by Spyro Gyra
Released	June 1984
Recorded	November 17–19, 1983
Venue	Florida
Genre	Jazz, fusion
Length	76:49
Label	MCA
Producer	Jay Beckenstein, Richard Calandra
Spyro Gyra chronology
City Kids (1983) Access All Areas (1984) Alternating Currents (1985)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Access All Areas is the eighth album and first live album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1984. It reached No. 77 on the Top 200 album chart at Billboard magazine and No. 1 on that magazine's Jazz Albums chart.^[2]

Track listing

1. "Shaker Song" (Jay Beckenstein) – 7:14
2. "Serpent in Paradise" (Beckenstein) – 5:56
3. "Heliopolis" (Beckenstein) – 11:49
4. "Harbor Nights" (Beckenstein) – 7:04
5. "Conversations" (Tom Schuman) – 8:30
6. "Schu's Blues" (Schuman) – 4:46
7. "Morning Dance" (Beckenstein) – 5:37
8. "Islands in the Sky" (Jeremy Wall) – 6:29
9. "Sea Biscuit" (all members) – 6:03
10. "Latin Streets" (Jorge Dalto, Gerardo Velez) – 8:24

The track "Old San Juan was not included on the CD due to lack of space.

Personnel

• Jay Beckenstein – soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones
• Tom Schuman – keyboards
• Chet Catallo – guitars
• Kim Stone – bass guitar, double bass
• Dave Samuels – vibraphone, marimba
• Eli Konikoff – drums
• Gerardo Velez – percussion

References