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	85:09 / 76:49 (CD)
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 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. ^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Old San Juan"	Jay Beckenstein	8:20
2.	"Shaker Song"	Jay Beckenstein	7:14
3.	"Serpent in Paradise"	Jay Beckenstein	5:56
4.	"Heliopolis"	Jay Beckenstein	11:49
5.	"Harbor Nights"	Jay Beckenstein	7:04
6.	"Conversations"	Tom Schuman	8:30
7.	"Schu's Blues"	Tom Schuman	4:46
8.	"Morning Dance"	Jay Beckenstein	5:37
9.	"Islands in the Sky"	Jeremy Wall	6:29
10.	"Sea Biscuit"	Jay Beckenstein, Tom Schuman, Chet Catallo, Eli Konikoff, Gerardo Velez, David Wofford	6:03
11.	"Latin Streets"	Jorge D'Alto, Gerardo Velez	8:24

"Old San Juan" is only on vinyl, cassette and digital releases, but omitted on CD version due to 80 minutes limit; however, hence July 10th, 2025, the song is now available on digital for the first time in 41 years.

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

References

1. Kohler, Paul. "Access All Areas". AllMusic. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
2. "Top 200 Albums". Billboard. September 15, 1984. Retrieved May 30, 2017.