Point of View (Spyro Gyra album)

Point of View
Studio album by Spyro Gyra
Released	June 1989
Recorded	1989
Studio	BearTracks Studios (Suffern, New York).
Genre	Jazz, smooth jazz
Length	53:48
Label	GRP
Producer	Jay Beckenstein
Spyro Gyra chronology
Rites of Summer (1988) Point of View (1989) Fast Forward (1990)

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Point of View is the thirteenth album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in June 1989 by GRP Records. At Billboard magazine, the album peaked at No. 120 on the Top 200 Albums chart.^[2][3]

Track listing[edit]

1. "Slow Burn" (Dave Samuels) – 4:07
2. "Swing Street" (Jay Beckenstein) – 5:13
3. "Fairweather" (Tom Schuman) – 4:46
4. "The Unknown Soldier" (Beckenstein) – 5:23
5. "Hannibal's Boogie" (Beckenstein) – 5:59
6. "No Limits" (Beckenstein) – 4:41*
7. "Carolina" (Richie Morales) – 4:34
8. "Riverwalk" (Samuels) – 4:29
9. "Swamp Thing" (Jeremy Wall) – 6:26
10. "Counterpoint" (Wall) – 3:56
11. "Gotcha" (Oskar Cartaya) – 4:09

"No Limits" (track No. 6) was not on the original LP but was included on the cassette and CD.

Personnel[edit]

Spyro Gyra

• Jay Beckenstein – saxophones
• Tom Schuman – keyboards
• Jay Azzolina – guitars
• Oskar Cartaya – bass
• Richie Morales – drums
• Dave Samuels – mallet synthesizer, vibraphone, marimba

Additional musicians

• Julio Fernández – rhythm guitar (5)
• Roger Squitero – percussion (1, 7, 11)

Production[edit]

• Jay Beckenstein – producer
• Jeremy Wall – assistant producer
• Larry Swist – engineer, mixing
• Chris Bubacz – additional engineer
• Doug Rose – assistant engineer
• Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk (New York City, New York).
• Stephen Walters – digital design
• Jeff Katz – photography
• Phil Brennan – management

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Spyro Gyra-Point of View at AllMusic
• Spyro Gyra official web site