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 Jeremy Wall – arrangements and conductor Jay Beckenstein – alto saxophone Lou Marini – tenor saxophone Dave Bargeron – trombone Alan Rubin – flugelhorn, trumpet Lew Soloff – flugelhorn, trumpet
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
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