Down the Wire

Down the Wire
Studio album by Spyro Gyra
Released	April 28, 2009 (2009-04-28)
Studio	Inner Machine Studios (Buffalo, New York) Big Time Audio (Jonesborough, Tennessee)
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	65:14
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]

Track listing

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

Personnel

Spyro Gyra

• Jay Beckenstein – saxophones
• Tom Schuman – keyboards
• Julio Fernández – guitars
• Scott Ambush – bass
• Bonny Bonaparte – drums, percussion, vocals

Additional musicians

• Gerardo Velez – percussion (2, 7), horn (8)
• Marc Quiñones – percussion (8)
• Bill Harris – tenor saxophone, flute
• Ozzie Melendez – trombone
• Don Harris – trumpet

Production

• Dave Love – executive producer
• Jay Beckenstein – producer
• Scott Ambush – co-producer (1, 7)
• Julio Fernández – co-producer (2, 9)
• Tom Schuman – co-producer (3, 5, 6, 10, 11)
• Bonny Bonaparte – co-producer (6, 11)
• Mike Brylinsky – engineer
• Justin Rose – engineer
• Martin Walters – mixing, mastering
• Natalie Singer – product manager
• Phil Brennan – cover artwork, management
• Robert Hoffman – design, photography
• Sean Gladwell – individual images
• Chris Harvey – individual images

References

1. "Complete list of Grammy nominations – East Bay Times". East Bay Times. December 3, 2009. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
2. "Spyro Gyra - Chart history". Billboard. Retrieved April 15, 2017.