City Kids (album)

City Kids
Studio album by Spyro Gyra
Released	1983 (1983)
Studio	BearTracks (Suffern, New York)
Genre	Jazz, jazz fusion
Length	42:03
Label	MCA
Producer	Jay Beckenstein Richard Calandra
Spyro Gyra chronology
Incognito (1982) City Kids (1983) Access All Areas (1984)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

City Kids is the seventh album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1983. At Billboard magazine, it reached No. 66 on the Top 200 Albums chart, ^[2] and No. 2 on that magazine's Jazz Albums chart.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jay Beckenstein except where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"City Kids"	Tom Schuman	5:11
2.	"Serpent in Paradise"		4:45
3.	"A Ballad"		5:42
4.	"Nightlife"	Jeremy Wall	4:32
5.	"Islands in the Sky"	Wall	6:44
6.	"Conversations"	Schuman	5:34
7.	"Silver Linings"		4:36
8.	"Haverstraw Road"		5:00

Personnel

Spyro Gyra

• Jay Beckenstein – alto saxophone (1, 2, 4, 7, 8), soprano saxophone (2, 3, 5, 6), Lyricon (2, 3)
• Tom Schuman – electric piano (1, 5–7), synthesizers (1, 2, 5–7), acoustic piano (7)
• Jeremy Wall – acoustic piano (4), synthesizers (4, 5)
• Chet Catallo – guitars (1–3, 5, 8), guitar solo (7)
• Kim Stone – bass (1)
• Eli Konikoff – drums (1)
• Gerardo Velez – percussion (1, 5, 7)
• Dave Samuels – vibraphone (3, 5, 6), marimba (4–6)

Guest musicians

• Jorge Dalto – acoustic piano (3)
• Richard Tee – electric piano (4, 8), acoustic piano (8)
• Hiram Bullock – guitars (2, 4, 7)
• Steve Love – guitars (2, 4, 5, 8), guitar solo (2, 4), acoustic guitar (7), electric guitar (7)
• Will Lee – bass (2, 4)
• Eddie Gómez – bass (3, 6)
• Marcus Miller – bass (5, 7, 8)
• Steve Jordan – drums (2, 4, 7)
• Steve Gadd – drums (3, 5, 6, 8), percussion (4, 8)
• Manolo Badrena – percussion (2, 3, 5, 6), congas (3, 5)
• Rob Zantay – Lyricon programming

Horn section

• Jeremy Wall – arrangements and conductor
• Jay Beckenstein – alto saxophone
• Lou Marini – tenor saxophone
• Dave Bargeron – trombone
• Alan Rubin – flugelhorn, trumpet
• Lew Soloff – flugelhorn, trumpet

Production

• Jay Beckenstein – producer
• Richard Calandra – producer
• Jeremy Wall – assistant producer (1, 6)
• Tom Schuman – assistant producer (1, 6)
• Michael Barry – engineer, mixing
• John Penzotti – assistant engineer
• Bob Troeller – assistant engineer
• Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk (New York, NY)
• George Osaki – art direction
• Michael G. Cobb – cover illustration

References

1. Allmusic review
2. "Spyro Gyra - Chart history | Billboard". Billboard. Retrieved May 16, 2017.