Incognito (Spyro Gyra album)

Incognito is the sixth album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1982. At Billboard it reached No. 46 on the Top 200 Albums chart, and No. 2 on that magazine's Jazz Albums chart.

Track listing

Charts

U.S. Weekly charts

U.S. Year End chart

Personnel

Spyro Gyra

• Jay Beckenstein – saxophones, whistle (2), percussion (2)
• Tom Schuman – Yamaha GS-1 (1), synthesizers (1, 2, 5, 6), electric piano (3, 5, 6, 8), acoustic piano (6)
• Jeremy Wall – electric piano (7)
• Chet Catallo – guitar textures (3), guitars (4, 8)
• John Tropea – guitar textures (3), slide guitar (4), guitars (5, 7)
• Gerardo Velez – percussion (1, 2, 4, 8)
• Dave Samuels – marimba (2, 6, 7), vibraphone (3, 7, 8)

Additional musicians

• Jorge Dalto – acoustic piano (2)
• Rob Mounsey – synthesizers (2, 5–7), vocoder (3, 6, 7)
• Richard Tee – acoustic piano (4, 8), organ (4)
• Hiram Bullock – guitar solo (1), guitars (6)
• Steve Love – guitars (1, 3–8), acoustic guitar (2), electric guitar (2)
• Will Lee – bass (1)
• Marcus Miller – bass (2–8)
• Steve Gadd – drums
• Manolo Badrena – congas (1), percussion (2, 5–7)
• Crusher Bennett – congas (5, 7)
• Toots Thielemans – harmonica (4)
• Tom Scott – Lyricon (5)

Horn Section

• Tom Scott – flute, saxophones
• Larry Williams – flute, saxophones
• Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone
• Gary Grant – flugelhorn, trumpet
• Jerry Hey – flugelhorn, trumpet, horn arrangements (1–4, 6–8)
• Jeremy Wall – horn arrangements (5)

String Section

• Jeremy Wall – string arrangements and conductor
• Harry Lookofsky – concertmaster
• Jonathan Abramowitz and Jesse Levy – cello
• Frederick Buldrini, Peter Dimirtiades, Lewis Eley, Regis Iandiorio, Harold Kohon, Harry Lookofsky, Guy Lumia, Marvin Morgenstern, Matthew Raimondi and Richard Young – violin

Production

• Jay Beckenstein – producer
• Richard Calandra – producer
• Michael Barry – engineer, mixing
• Steve Crimmel – assistant engineer
• Josiah Gluck – assistant engineer
• Debbie Rebhun – assistant engineer
• Nina Siff – assistant engineer
• Larry Swist – assistant engineer
• Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk (New York, NY)
• George Osaki – art direction
• Michael G. Cobb – cover illustration

References