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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, and No. 2 on that magazine's Jazz Albums chart.

Track listing

Personnel

Spyro Gyra

  • Jay Beckenstein – alto saxophone (1, 2, 4, 7, 8), soprano saxophone (2, 3, 5, 6), Lyricon (2, 3)
  • Tom Schuman – electric piano (1, 5–7), synthesizers (1, 2, 5–7), acoustic piano (7)
  • Jeremy Wall – acoustic piano (4), synthesizers (4, 5)
  • Chet Catallo – guitars (1–3, 5, 8), guitar solo (7)
  • Kim Stone – bass (1)
  • Eli Konikoff – drums (1)
  • Gerardo Velez – percussion (1, 5, 7)
  • Dave Samuels – vibraphone (3, 5, 6), marimba (4–6)

Guest musicians

  • Jorge Dalto – acoustic piano (3)
  • Richard Tee – electric piano (4, 8), acoustic piano (8)
  • Hiram Bullock – guitars (2, 4, 7)
  • Steve Love – guitars (2, 4, 5, 8), guitar solo (2, 4), acoustic guitar (7), electric guitar (7)
  • 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, 5, 6, 8), percussion (4, 8)
  • Manolo Badrena – percussion (2, 3, 5, 6), congas (3, 5)
  • Rob Zantay – Lyricon programming

Horn section

Production

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

References