Access All Areas
Live album by
ReleasedJune 1984
RecordedNovember 17–19, 1983
VenueFlorida
GenreJazz, fusion
Length85:09 / 76:49 (Digital)
LabelMCA
ProducerJay Beckenstein, Richard Calandra
Spyro Gyra chronology
City Kids
(1983)
Access All Areas
(1984)
Alternating Currents
(1985)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Access All Areas is the first live album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1984 on double-LP vinyl, cassette tape, and CD. It reached No. 77 on the Top 200 album chart at Billboard magazine and No. 1 on that magazine's Jazz Albums chart.[2]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Old San Juan"Jay Beckenstein8:20
2."Shaker Song"Jay Beckenstein7:14
3."Serpent in Paradise"Jay Beckenstein5:56
4."Heliopolis"Jay Beckenstein11:49
5."Harbor Nights"Jay Beckenstein7:04
6."Conversations"Tom Schuman8:30
7."Schu's Blues"Tom Schuman4:46
8."Morning Dance"Jay Beckenstein5:37
9."Islands in the Sky"Jeremy Wall6:29
10."Sea Biscuit"Jay Beckenstein, Tom Schuman, Chet Catallo, Eli Konikoff, Gerardo Velez, David Wofford6:03
11."Latin Streets"Jorge D'Alto, Gerardo Velez8:24

Bold: Available only on Vinyl & Cassette releases, omitted on digital versions of the album, in effort to bring the original albums for the cost of a single CD; since it cannot surpass over 80 minutes long.

Personnel

Spyro Gyra

Production

  • Jay Beckenstein – producer
  • Richard Calandra – producer
  • Tom Schuman – assistant producer
  • Jeremy Wall – assistant producer
  • Michael Barry – engineer, mixing
  • Guy Charbonneau – engineer at Le Mobile
  • Cliff Bonnell – assistant engineer
  • John Penzotti – assistant engineer, mix assistant
  • BearTracks Studios (Suffern, NY) – mixing location
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk (New York, NY)
  • George Osaki – art direction
  • Jon Echevarrieta – design
  • Michael G. Cobb – cover illustrations
  • Yukio Ichikawa – inside cover photography
  • Phil Brennan – management

Live personnel

  • Brad Malkus – production manager, lighting designer
  • Randy Schuld – monitor engineer
  • Neil Stadtmiller – sound engineer
  • Don Kurek – keyboard technician
  • Richard Snedecker – truck driver

References

  1. Kohler, Paul. "Access All Areas". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  2. "Top 200 Albums". Billboard. 15 September 1984. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
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