Morning Dance
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Morning Dance is Spyro Gyra's most commercially successful album, released in the summer of 1979. The title cut
became a major hit (Billboard #24 pop, #1 adult contemporary.) also in the summer of 1979.
Horns arranged and conducted by Jeremy Wall
except "Heliopolis" by Jay Beckenstein
Strings arranged and conducted by Jeremy Wall
Morning Dance (song)
"Morning Dance" is the title of an instrumental recording by the noted smooth jazz/jazz fusion band Spyro Gyra. Released as a single from the band's second studio album of the same name in 1979, "Morning Dance" became a Top 40 hit in the United States, where it peaked at number 24 on the Billboard...
became a major hit (Billboard #24 pop, #1 adult contemporary.) also in the summer of 1979.
Track listing and personnel
- "Morning DanceMorning Dance (song)"Morning Dance" is the title of an instrumental recording by the noted smooth jazz/jazz fusion band Spyro Gyra. Released as a single from the band's second studio album of the same name in 1979, "Morning Dance" became a Top 40 hit in the United States, where it peaked at number 24 on the Billboard...
" (Jay Beckenstein) - 4:11 - "Jubilee" (Jeremy Wall) - 4:31
- "Rasul" (Jeremy Wall) - 3:57
- "Song for Lorraine" (Jay Beckenstein) - 3:59
- "Starburst" (Jeremy Wall) - 4:50
- "Heliopolis" (Jay Beckenstein) - 5:34
- "It Doesn't Matter" (Chet Catallo) - 4:27
- "Little Linda" (Jeremy Wall) - (4:27)
- "End of Romanticism" (Rick Strauss) - 5:00
Personnel
- Jay BeckensteinJay BeckensteinJay B. Beckenstein is a saxophone player, smooth jazz artist and together with Jeremy Wall founded Spyro Gyra...
: alto saxophone - Jeremy WallJeremy WallJeremy 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...
: electric piano, synethesizers on all except "It Doesn't Matter" and "Song for Lorraine", percussion on "Little Linda" - Tom Schuman: keyboards on all except "It Doesn't Matter" and "Song for Lorraine", rhodes solo on "Helipolis"
- John TropeaJohn TropeaJohn 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...
: electric and acoustic guitar on "Starburst", "Jubilee" and "Morning Dance" - Chet Catallo: guitar on "It Doesn't Matter" and "Song for Lorraine"
- Jim Kurzdorfer: bass on all except "Jubilee", "Starburst" and "Heliopolis",
- Will LeeWill 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 "Heliopolis", "Starburst", "Jubilee" - Ted Reinhardt: drums on except "It Doesn't Matter", "Heliopolis", "Starburst" and "Jubilee"
- Rubens BassiniRubens BassiniRubens Bassini was a percussionist who played bongos and congas above all. He played together with the band Os Ipanemas: Astor Silva Marinho Wilson das Neves and Neco ....
: congas and percussion on all except "Rasul", "Song for Lorraine", "It Doesn't Matter" and "End of Romanticism" - Dave SamuelsDave SamuelsDave Samuels is an American vibraphone player who has worked with various jazz and fusion artists, such as Spyro Gyra. Currently, he plays in an ensemble called The Caribbean Jazz Project, a Grammy-winning jazz-Latin music group...
: marimba and steel drum on all except "It Doesn't Matter", "Starburst" and "Song for Lorraine" - Gerardo Velez: percussion on "Song for Lorraine" and congas on "It Doesn't Matter",
- Michael BreckerMichael BreckerMichael 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...
: tenor sax solo on "Starburst" - Randy BreckerRandy BreckerRandal "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 solo "Jubilee" - Tom MaloneTom Malone (musician)Tom "Bones" Malone is an American jazz musician. As his nickname implies, he specializes on the trombone, but also plays trumpet, tuba, tenor sax, baritone sax, flutes, piccolo, and other instruments....
: trombone - Lewis del Gatto: flutes
- John ClarkJohn Clark (musician)John Clark is an American jazz horn player and composer.-Biography:John Clark was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Rochester, New York. His father was William H. Clark, a professor of German and dean of education at the University of Rochester, and his mother was Margaret Garmey. He and his four...
: French horn on "End of Romanticism" and "Rasul" - Lani Groves, Diva Grey, Gordon Grody: vocalists on "Song for "Lorraine"
- Rick Strauss: electric and 12-string guitar on "End of Romanticism", "Rasul" and "Little Linda"
- Suzanne CianiSuzanne CianiSuzanne Ciani is an Italian American pianist and music composer who found early success with innovative electronic music.-Education:...
: synethesizers on "Song for Lorraine" and "It Doesn't Matter", - Steve JordanSteve Jordan (musician)Steve Jordan is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, musical director and Grammy Award-winning artist, who has made a name for himself as a producer from the Bronx in New York City. A graduate of the Fiorello H...
: drums on "Jubilee", "Starburst" and "Heliopolis"
Horns arranged and conducted by 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...
except "Heliopolis" by Jay Beckenstein
Jay Beckenstein
Jay B. Beckenstein is a saxophone player, smooth jazz artist and together with Jeremy Wall founded Spyro Gyra...
Strings
- Harry LookofskyHarry LookofskyHarry Lookofsky was an American jazz violinist. He is also the father of keyboardist-songwriter Michael Brown, a member of The Left Banke.-History:...
: Violin (Concertmaster) - Matthew Raimondi: Violin
- Harry Cykman: Violin
- Charles LiBove: Violin
- Alfred BrownAlfred BrownAlfred Brown may refer to:*Alfred Winsor Brown, Governor of Guam* Ernest Brown, British politician*Alfred Brown , Yorkshire cricketer*Alfred Brown , Blackpool, Barnsley and Swindon Town player...
: Viola - Charles McCracken: Cello
Strings arranged and conducted by 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...