Carnaval (Spyro Gyra album)
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Track listing

  1. "Cafe A'More" (Chet Catallo) - 5:02
  2. "Dizzy" (Tom Schuman/Eli Konikoff) - 4:40
  3. "Awakening" (Jeremy Wall) - 5:48
  4. "Cachaca" (Jay Beckenstein) - 4:18
  5. "Fox Trot" (Jay Beckenstein) - 4:40
  6. "Sweet 'N Savvy" (Tom Schuman) - 5:12
  7. "Bittersweet" (Jay Beckenstein) - 4:28
  8. "Carnaval" (Jeremy Wall) - 5:26

Personnel

  • Jay Beckenstein
    Jay Beckenstein
    Jay B. Beckenstein is a saxophone player, smooth jazz artist and together with Jeremy Wall founded Spyro Gyra...

    : saxophone
  • Jeremy Wall
    Jeremy Wall
    Jeremy Wall is a musician, and along with Jay Beckenstein, he was a founding member of the jazz fusion band Spyro Gyra. He contributed to the group as a pianist, producer, and composer. He is currently an assistant professor in the Music Industry department at SUNY Oneonta.-Background:Wall formed...

    : keyboards on "Carnaval"
  • Tom Schuman: keyboards on all except "Carnaval"
  • Hiram Bullock
    Hiram Bullock
    Hiram Law Bullock was an American jazz funk and jazz fusion guitarist.He was born in Osaka, Japan to African American parents serving in the U.S. Military. At the age of two he returned to Baltimore, Maryland with his parents, and quickly showed a prodigious musical talent...

    : guitar on "Carnaval" and "Dizzy"
  • Chet Catallo: guitar on all except "Dizzy" and "Carnaval"
  • John Tropea
    John Tropea
    John Tropea is a guitarist with extensive experience in the rock, pop, and jazz genres. Tropea has written for and played with major recording artists from around the world...

    : guitar on all except "Carnaval" and "Cafe Amore", solo on "Cachaca"
  • Will Lee
    Will Lee (bassist)
    Will Lee aka William Franklin Lee IV is an American musician and bassist, best known for his work on the CBS television program The Late Show with David Letterman as part of the CBS Orchestra....

    : bass on all except "Awakening"
  • Steven Jordan: drums on "Cachaca" and "Carnaval"
  • Errol "Crusher" Bennett: percussion and congas on all except "Awakening" and "Fox Trot"
  • Dave Samuels: marimba on all except "Awakening" and "Cachaca"
  • Randy Brecker
    Randy Brecker
    Randal "Randy" Brecker is an American trumpeter and flugelhornist. He is a highly sought after performer in the genres of jazz, rock, and R&B, and has performed or recorded with Stanley Turrentine, Billy Cobham, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Sandip Burman, Charles Mingus, Blood, Sweat & Tears,...

    : trumpet on "Cafe Amore", "Dizzy", "Fox Trot" and "Carnaval"
  • Gerardo Velez: percussion on all except "Bittersweet" and "Cafe Amore"
  • Steve Kroon: percussion "Carnaval" and "Cachaca"
  • Rob Mounsey
    Rob Mounsey
    Rob Mounsey is an award-winning composer, music producer, and musician. He was born in Berea, Ohio and grew up in Seattle, Washington and several Ohio towns. At the age of 17, he was awarded a BMI Student Composer's Award in New York. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston from 1971 to 1975...

    : polyphonic synth on all except "Carnaval"
  • Eli Konikoff: drums on all except "Cachaca" and "Carnaval"
  • Michael Brecker
    Michael Brecker
    Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz...

    : flute on "Cafe Amore"
  • David Darling: cello on "Awakening"
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