Freetime (album)

Freetime
Studio album by Spyro Gyra
Released	July 1981 (July 1981)
Recorded	1981
Genre	Jazz, fusion
Length	37:33
Label	MCA
Producer	Jay Beckenstein, Richard Calandra
Spyro Gyra chronology
Carnaval (1980) Freetime (1981) Incognito (1982)

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Freetime is the fifth album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1981. At Billboard magazine, the album reached No. 41 on the Top 200 albums chart^[2], and No. 1 on that magazine's Jazz Albums chart.

Track listing

1. "Freetime" (Tom Schuman, Eli Konikoff) – 6:03
2. "Telluride" (Jay Beckenstein) – 5:18
3. "Summer Strut" (Jeremy Wall) – 5:07
4. "Elegy for Trane" (Wall) – 4:35
5. "Pacific Sunrise" (Schuman) – 7:53
6. "Amber Dream" (Beckenstein) – 5:07
7. "String Soup" (Jim Kurzdorfer) – 3:30

Personnel

• Jay Beckenstein – saxophones, clay flute, percussion
• Tom Schuman – keyboards
• Jeremy Wall – keyboards
• Chet Catallo – guitar
• John Tropea – guitar
• Dave Samuels – vibraphone, marimba
• Eli Konikoff – drums
• Gerardo Velez – percussion

Guests

• Randy Brecker – trumpet
• Rob Mounsey – synthesizer, backing vocals
• Richard Tee – keyboards
• Steve Khan – guitar
• Will Lee – bass, backing vocals
• David Darling – cello
• Errol "Crusher" Bennett – percussion
• Valerie Simpson, Casey Cysick – backing vocals

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