The Deep End (Spyro Gyra album)

The Deep End
Studio album by Spyro Gyra
Released	May 25, 2004 (2004-05-25)
Studio	BearTracks Studios (Suffern, New York)
Genre	Jazz, jazz pop
Length	64:47
Label	Heads Up
Producer	Spyro Gyra Jeremy Wall
Spyro Gyra chronology
Original Cinema (2003) The Deep End (2004) Wrapped in a Dream (2006)

The Deep End is the twenty-seventh album by Spyro Gyra, released on May 25, 2004. The album peaked at No. 3 on the jazz album chart at Billboard magazine. ^[1]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Tom Hull	B− [3]

Tom Hull dismissed the album as a "dud" in his "Jazz Consumer Guide" for The Village Voice in September 2004. ^[4] In a commentary published on his website, he explained, "Spry funk, thick layers of guitar-keyb-sax that never let up, occasional tidbits of exotica, they don't aim for pablum, but they don't take risks either, so in the end they're as predictable as formula." ^[3]

Track listing

1. "Summer Fling" (Jeremy Wall) – 4:58
2. "Eastlake Shuffle" (Julio Fernandez) – 5:02
3. "Monsoon" (Jay Beckenstein) – 7:00
4. "As You Wish" (Beckenstein) – 4:36
5. "Joburg Jam" (Beckenstein) – 6:10
6. "The Crossing" (Fernandez) – 7:17
7. "Wiggle Room" (Scott Ambush) – 6:48
8. "Wind Warriors" (Tom Schuman) – 6:15
9. "In Your Arms" (Schuman) – 4:46
10. "Chippewa Street" (Beckenstein) – 5:46
11. "Beyond the Rain" (Ambush) – 6:09

Personnel

Spyro Gyra

• Jay Beckenstein – saxophones
• Tom Schuman – keyboards
• Julio Fernández – guitars, vocals (6)
• Scott Ambush – bass

Guest musicians

• Billy Kilson – drums (1, 4, 10)
• Joel Rosenblatt – drums (2, 3, 6-9, 11)
• Ludwig Afonso – drums (5)
• Cyro Baptista – percussion (1, 3, 6)
• Daniel Sadownick – percussion (1–"-4, 7, 10, 11)
• Dave Samuels – vibraphone (4, 5, 7, 11)
• David Charles – percussion (8, 9)
• Don Harris – trumpet (1, 10)

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Production

• Jay Beckenstein – executive producer, producer
• Jeremy Wall – producer (1)
• Julio Fernández – producer (2, 6)
• Scott Ambush – producer (7, 11)
• Tom Schuman – producer (8, 9)
• Doug Oberkircher – recording, mixing
• Eric Carlinsky – recording, assistant engineer
• Scott Hull – mastering at The Hit Factory (New York City, New York)
• Paul Blakemore – 5.1 surround sound mastering
• Colin Anderson – cover image
• Robert Hoffman – design
• Phil Brennan – management

References

1. Billboard magazine, June 26, 2004, p. 84
2. Widran, Jonathan. "The Deep End". Allmusic . Retrieved 2022-06-04.
3. Hull, Tom (September 28, 2004). "September 2004 Notebook". tomhull.com. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
4. Hull, Tom (September 28, 2004). "Jazz Consumer Guide (2): The Caribbean Tinge". The Village Voice . Retrieved June 25, 2020– via tomhull.com.
5. "The Deep End - Spyro Gyra | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 April 2017.