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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.[2]

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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	[1]

Track listing

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

• Jay Beckenstein – soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones
• Tom Schuman – keyboards
• Chet Catallo – guitars
• Dave Samuels – vibraphone, marimba
• Kim Stone – bass guitar, double bass
• Eli Konikoff – drums
• Gerardo Velez – percussion

References

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