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.
Track listing
"Old San Juan" is only on vinyl, cassette and digital releases, but omitted on CD version due to 80 minutes limit; however, hence July 10th, 2025, the song is now available on digital for the first time in 41 years.
Personnel
Spyro Gyra
- Jay Beckenstein â alto and soprano saxophones
- Tom Schuman â Yamaha CP-70, Yamaha GS2, Dyno Rhodes, Prophet-5, Memorymoog, Multimoog, Moog Liberation
- Chet Catallo â electric guitars, classical guitar
- Kim Stone â bass guitars, acoustic bass
- Eli Konikoff â drums
- Dave Samuels â vibraphone, marimba
- Gerardo Velez â congas, percussion, timbales
Production
- Jay Beckenstein â producer
- Richard Calandra â producer
- Tom Schuman â assistant producer
- Jeremy Wall â assistant producer
- Michael Barry â engineer, mixing
- Guy Charbonneau â engineer at Le Mobile
- Cliff Bonnell â assistant engineer
- John Penzotti â assistant engineer, mix assistant
- BearTracks Studios (Suffern, NY) â mixing location
- Bob Ludwig â mastering at Masterdisk (New York, NY)
- George Osaki â art direction
- Jon Echevarrieta â design
- Michael G. Cobb â cover illustrations
- Yukio Ichikawa â inside cover photography
- Phil Brennan â management
Live personnel
- Brad Malkus â production manager, lighting designer
- Randy Schuld â monitor engineer
- Neil Stadtmiller â sound engineer
- Don Kurek â keyboard technician
- Richard Snedecker â truck driver
References