Access All Areas (Spyro Gyra album)

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.

Access All Areas
Live album by Spyro Gyra
Released	June 1984
Recorded	November 17–19, 1983
Venue	Florida
Genre	Jazz, fusion
Length	85:09 / 76:49 (Digital)
Label	MCA
Producer	Jay Beckenstein, Richard Calandra
Spyro Gyra chronology
City Kids (1983) Access All Areas (1984) Alternating Currents (1985)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Old San Juan"	Jay Beckenstein	8:20
2.	"Shaker Song"	Jay Beckenstein	7:14
3.	"Serpent in Paradise"	Jay Beckenstein	5:56
4.	"Heliopolis"	Jay Beckenstein	11:49
5.	"Harbor Nights"	Jay Beckenstein	7:04
6.	"Conversations"	Tom Schuman	8:30
7.	"Schu's Blues"	Tom Schuman	4:46
8.	"Morning Dance"	Jay Beckenstein	5:37
9.	"Islands in the Sky"	Jeremy Wall	6:29
10.	"Sea Biscuit"	Jay Beckenstein, Tom Schuman, Chet Catallo, Eli Konikoff, Gerardo Velez, David Wofford	6:03
11.	"Latin Streets"	Jorge D'Alto, Gerardo Velez	8:24

Bold: Available only on Vinyl & Cassette releases, omitted on digital versions of the album, in effort to bring the original albums for the cost of a single CD; since it cannot surpass over 80 minutes long.

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