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 – alto and soprano saxophones Tom Schuman – Yamaha CP-70, Yamaha GS2, Dyno Rhodes, Prophet-5, Memorymoog, Multimoog, Moog Liberation Chet Catallo – electric guitars, classical guitar Kim Stone – bass guitars, acoustic bass Eli Konikoff – drums Dave Samuels – vibraphone, marimba Gerardo Velez – congas, percussion, timbales
Production Jay Beckenstein – producer Richard Calandra – producer Tom Schuman – assistant producer Jeremy Wall – assistant producer Michael Barry – engineer, mixing Guy Charbonneau – engineer at Le Mobile Cliff Bonnell – assistant engineer John Penzotti – assistant engineer, mix assistant BearTracks Studios (Suffern, NY) – mixing location Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk (New York, NY) George Osaki – art direction Jon Echevarrieta – design Michael G. Cobb – cover illustrations Yukio Ichikawa – inside cover photography Phil Brennan – management
Live personnel Brad Malkus – production manager, lighting designer Randy Schuld – monitor engineer Neil Stadtmiller – sound engineer Don Kurek – keyboard technician Richard Snedecker – truck driver
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