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Freetime | ||||
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Released | July 1981 | |||
Recorded | 1981 | |||
Genre | Jazz fusion | |||
Length | 37:33 | |||
Label | MCA | |||
Producer | Jay Beckenstein, Richard Calandra | |||
Spyro Gyra chronology | ||||
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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.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Freetime" (Schuman, Konikoff) | 6:03 |
2. | "Telluride" (Beckenstein) | 5:18 |
3. | "Summer Strut" (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" (Kurzdorfer) | 3:30 |
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