Heart of the Night

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Heart of the Night
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 23, 1996 (1996-04-23)
Recorded1996
Genre Jazz, smooth jazz
Length53:24
Label GRP
Producer Jay Beckenstein, Jeremy Wall
Spyro Gyra chronology
Love and Other Obsessions
(1995)
Heart of the Night
(1996)
20/20
(1997)
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Heart of the Night is the nineteenth album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in 1996 by GRP Records. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Heart of the Night" (Jay Beckenstein) – 4:34
  2. "De La Luz" (Julio Fernandez) – 5:14
  3. "Westwood Moon" (Tom Schuman) – 4:56
  4. "Midnight" (Jeremy Wall) – 4:26
  5. "Playtime" (Beckenstein) – 4:34
  6. "Surrender" (Beckenstein) – 4:47
  7. "Valentino's" (Schuman) – 4:56
  8. "Believe" (Fernandez) – 5:11
  9. "As We Sleep" (Scott Ambush) – 4:58
  10. "When Evening Falls" (Beckenstein) – 4:59
  11. "J Squared" (Beckenstein, Joel Rosenblatt) – 4:49
  12. "Best Thing" (Beckenstein) [Bonus track] – 4:34

Personnel

Spyro Gyra

Additional personnel

Production

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References

  1. Yanow, Scott. "Heart of the Night". Allmusic . Retrieved 2021-11-16.
  2. Yanow, Scott. "Heart of the Night – Spyro Gyra". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 May 2017.