Down the Wire

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Down the Wire
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 28, 2009 (2009-04-28)
Studio
  • Inner Machine Studios (Buffalo, New York)
  • Big Time Audio (Jonesborough, Tennessee)
Genre Jazz fusion
Length65:14
Label Heads Up
Producer
  • Jay Beckenstein
  • Spyro Gyra
Spyro Gyra chronology
A Night Before Christmas
(2008)
Down the Wire
(2009)
A Foreign Affair
(2011)

Down the Wire is the thirty-first album by Spyro Gyra, released on April 28, 2009. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album in 2010. [1] Down the Wire peaked at No. 9 on the jazz album chart at Billboard magazine. [2]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Down the Wire" Scott Ambush 5:57
2."Unspoken"Julio Fernandez5:51
3."Not for Nothin'" Tom Schuman 5:02
4."Island Pond" Jay Beckenstein 6:00
5."The Tippin' Point"Jay Beckenstein, Tom Schuman5:24
6."Ice Mountain"Bonny Bonaparte6:58
7."A Flower for Annie Jeanette"Scott Ambush7:05
8."La Zona Rosa"Jay Beckenstein6:22
9."What It Is"Julio Fernandez6:23
10."A Distant Memory"Jay Beckenstein, Tom Schuman4:42
11."Make It Mine"Bonny Bonaparte5:30

Personnel

Spyro Gyra

Additional musicians

Production

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