Incognito (Spyro Gyra album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Incognito
| type = studio
| artist = Spyro Gyra
| cover = Incognito spyro gyra.jpg
| alt =
| released = September 1982
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
- Ocean Way Recording (Hollywood, California)
- Secret Sound (New York City, New York)
- BearTracks Studios (Suffern, New York)
| genre = Jazz, jazz fusion
| length = {{Duration|m=38|s=48}}
| label = MCA
| producer =
- Jay Beckenstein
- Richard Calandra
| prev_title = Freetime
| prev_year = 1981
| next_title = City Kids
| next_year = 1983
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r148023|pure_url=yes}}
| noprose = yes
}}
Incognito is the sixth album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1982. At Billboard it reached No. 46 on the Top 200 Albums chart,{{cite magazine|title=Spyro Gyra - Chart history {{!}} Billboard|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/280232/spyro-gyra/chart?f=305|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=16 May 2017|language=en}} and No. 2 on that magazine's Jazz Albums chart.
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing = Jay Beckenstein except where noted{{cite web |title=Incognito - Spyro Gyra {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/incognito-mw0000192520 |website=AllMusic |accessdate=9 March 2019 |language=en-us}}
| title1 =Last Exit
| writer1 = Tom Schuman
| length1 = 4:17
| title2 = Old San Juan
| length2 = 6:41
| title3 = Harbor Nights
| length3 = 4:22
| title4 = Stripes
| length4 = 4:01
| title5 = Oasis
| writer5 = Jeremy Wall
| length5 = 5:39
| title6 = Incognito
| writer6 = Tom Schuman
| length6 = 5:56
| title7 = Sueño
| writer7 = Jeremy Wall
| length7 = 4:05
| title8 = Soho Mojo
| length8 = 3:47
}}
Charts
=U.S. Weekly charts=
=U.S. Year End chart=
| class="wikitable" width="330px"
!align="center"|Chart !align="center"|Position |
| align="center"|Billboard 1983 Jazz{{cite web | url = https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/80s/1983/BB-1983-12-24-OCR-Page-0079.pdf| title = Billboard Top Jazz Albums – December 24, 1983, p. TA-32| accessdate = 16 September 2018 }}
|align="center"|8 |
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
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