City Kids (album)

City Kids is the seventh album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1983. At Billboard magazine, it reached No. 66 on the Top 200 Albums chart,[2] and No. 2 on that magazine's Jazz Albums chart.

City Kids
Studio album by Spyro Gyra
Released	1983
Studio	BearTracks Studios (Suffern, New York).
Genre	Jazz, fusion
Length	42:03
Label	MCA
Producer	Jay Beckenstein, Richard Calandra
Spyro Gyra chronology
Incognito (1982) City Kids (1983) Access All Areas (1984)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jay Beckenstein except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"City Kids" (Schuman)	5:11
2.	"Serpent in Paradise"	4:45
3.	"A Ballad"	5:42
4.	"Nightlife" (Wall)	4:32
5.	"Islands in the Sky" (Wall)	6:44
6.	"Conversations" (Schuman)	5:34
7.	"Silver Linings"	4:36
8.	"Haverstraw Road"	5:00

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic.[3]

Spyro Gyra

• Jay Beckenstein – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, Lyricon
• Tom Schuman – electric piano (1, 2, 5, 6, 7), synthesizers (1, 2, 5, 6, 7)
• Jeremy Wall – acoustic piano (4, 5), synthesizers (4, 5)
• Chet Catallo – guitar (1, 2, 3, 5, 7)
• Kim Stone – bass (1)
• Eli Konikoff – drums (1)
• Gerardo Velez – percussion (1, 5, 7)
• Dave Samuels – marimba (4, 5), vibraphone (4, 5)

Guests

• Richard Tee – acoustic piano (4, 8), electric piano (4, 8)
• Hiram Bullock – guitar (2, 4, 7)
• Steve Love – acoustic guitar (2, 4, 5, 7, 8), electric guitar (2, 4, 5, 7, 8), guitar solo (2, 4)
• Will Lee – bass (2, 4)
• Eddie Gómez – bass (3, 6)
• Marcus Miller – bass (5, 7, 8)
• Steve Jordan – drums (2, 4, 7)
• Steve Gadd – drums (3, 4, 5, 6, 9), percussion (3, 4, 5, 6, 9)
• Manolo Badrena – congas (1, 2, 3, 5, 6), percussion (1, 2, 3, 5, 6)
• Lou Marini – tenor saxophone
• Dave Bargeron – trombone
• Alan Rubin – flugelhorn, trumpet
• Lew Soloff – flugelhorn, trumpet
• Rob Zantay – Lyricon programming
• Lani Groves – vocals (1)

Production

• Jay Beckenstein – producer
• Richard Calandra – producer
• Jeremy Wall – assistant producer (1, 6)
• Tom Schuman – assistant producer (1, 6)
• Michael Barry – engineer
• John Penzotti – assistant engineer
• Bob Troeller – assistant engineer
• Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk (New York, NY).
• George Osaki – art direction, design
• Michael G. Cobb – cover illustration

References

1. Allmusic review
2. "Spyro Gyra - Chart history | Billboard". Billboard. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
3. "City Kids - Spyro Gyra | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 May 2017.