Freetime (album)
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Freetime | ||||
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Released | July 1981 | |||
Recorded | 1981 | |||
Genre | Jazz fusion | |||
Length | 37:33 | |||
Label | MCA | |||
Producer | Jay Beckenstein, Richard Calandra | |||
Spyro Gyra chronology | ||||
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Freetime is the fifth album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1981. At Billboard magazine, the album reached No. 41 on the Top 200 albums chart[2] and No. 1 on that magazine's Jazz Albums chart.
Track listing[]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Freetime" (Schuman, Konikoff) | 6:03 |
2. | "Telluride" (Beckenstein) | 5:18 |
3. | "Summer Strut" (Wall) | 5:07 |
4. | "Elegy for Trane" (Wall) | 4:35 |
5. | "Pacific Sunrise" (Schuman) | 7:53 |
6. | "Amber Dream" (Beckenstein) | 5:07 |
7. | "String Soup" (Kurzdorfer) | 3:30 |
Personnel[]
Spyro Gyra
- Jay Beckenstein – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, clay flute, percussion
- Tom Schuman – acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, synthesizers
- Jeremy Wall – acoustic piano, synthesizers
- Chet Catallo – guitar
- John Tropea – guitar
- Dave Samuels – vibraphone, marimba
- Eli Konikoff – drums
- Gerardo Velez – percussion
Guests
- Rob Mounsey – synthesizers, backing vocals
- Richard Tee – acoustic piano (7), Fender Rhodes (7)
- Steve Khan – guitar (3)
- Will Lee – bass, backing vocals
- Errol "Crusher" Bennett – percussion
- Richard Calandra – cymbal (4)
- Randy Brecker – trumpet (1)
- David Darling – cello (4)
- Kasey Cisyk – backing vocals
- Valerie Simpson – backing vocals
Production[]
- Jay Beckenstein – producer
- Richard Calandra – producer
- Jeremy Wall – assistant producer
- Michael Barry – recording, mixing
- Steve Baldwin – recording assistant
- Charles Conrad – mixing
- Julian Robertson – mix assistant
- Bob Ludwig – mastering
- David Heffernan – artwork, design
- Studios
- Recorded at Secret Sound (New York, NY).
- Mixed at House of Music (West Orange, NJ).
- Mastered at Masterdisk (New York, NY).
References[]
- ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r69150
- ^ "Spyro Gyra - Chart history | Billboard". Billboard. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
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- 1981 albums
- Spyro Gyra albums
- MCA Records albums
- 1980s jazz album stubs