Morning Dance

Morning Dance
Studio album by Spyro Gyra
Released	1979 (1979)
Genre	Jazz fusion, smooth jazz
Length	39:36
Label	MCA
Producer	Jay Beckenstein, Richard Calandra
Spyro Gyra chronology
Spyro Gyra (1978) Morning Dance (1979) Catching the Sun (1980)

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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.

Track listing and personnel

1. "Morning Dance" (Jay Beckenstein) - 4:11
2. "Jubilee" (Jeremy Wall) - 4:31
3. "Rasul" (Jeremy Wall) - 3:57
4. "Song for Lorraine" (Jay Beckenstein) - 3:59
5. "Starburst" (Jeremy Wall) - 4:50
6. "Heliopolis" (Jay Beckenstein) - 5:34
7. "It Doesn't Matter" (Chet Catallo) - 4:27
8. "Little Linda" (Jeremy Wall) - (4:27)
9. "End of Romanticism" (Rick Strauss) - 5:00

Personnel

• Jay Beckenstein: alto saxophone
• Jeremy Wall: 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 Tropea: electric and acoustic guitar on "Starburst", "Jubilee" and "Morning Dance"
• Chet Catallo: guitar on "It Doesn't Matter" and "Song for Lorraine"
• Jim Kurzforder: bass on all except "Jubilee", "Starburst" and "Heliopolis",
• Will Lee: bass on "Heliopolis", "Starburst", "Jubilee"
• Ted Reinhardt: drums on except "It Doesn't Matter", "Heliopolis", "Starburst" and "Jubilee"
• Rubens Bassini: congas and percussion on all except "Rasul", "Song for Lorraine", "It Doesn't Matter" and "End of Romanticism"
• Dave Samuels: 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 Brecker: tenor sax solo on "Starburst"
• Randy Brecker: trumpet solo "Jubilee"
• Tom Malone: trombone
• Lewis del Gatto: flutes
• John Clark: 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 Ciani: synethesizers on "Song for Lorraine" and "It Doesn't Matter",
• Steve Jordan: drums on "Jubilee", "Starburst" and "Heliopolis"

Horns arranged and conducted by Jeremy Wall except "Heliopolis" by Jay Beckenstein

Strings

• Harry Lookofsky: Violin (Concertmaster)
• Matthew Raimondi: Violin
• Harry Cykman: Violin
• Charles LiBove: Violin
• Alfred Brown: Viola
• Charles McCracken: Cello

Strings arranged and conducted by Jeremy Wall

References

1. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r69148