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Rites of Summer is the twelfth album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1988. At Billboard magazine, No. 104 on the Top 200 Albums chart.

The AllMusic review by Stewart Mason rated the album 3 out 5 and stated:”1998’s Rites of Summer is the album on which Spyro Gyra once and for all abandons every pretense toward being anything other than a slickly commercial instrumental pop outfit with occasional feints toward the smoothest of smooth jazz. As always with Spyro Gyra, the slower and more impressionistic tunes are much more interesting than the upbeat songs. … Fans who admired the more complex and occasionally even edgy sound of Spyro Gyra’s earliest albums will be disappointed, but those who liked the rest of their ’80s releases will find this comfortingly familiar.”

Track listing:
“Claire’s Dream” (Jay Beckenstein) – 5:39
“Daddy’s Got a New Girl Now” (Beckenstein) – 4:02
“Limelight” (Dave Samuels) – 4:27
“Shanghai Gumbo” (Julio Fernandez) – 4:28
“Innocent Soul” (Tom Schuman) – 4:52
“No Man’s Land” (Jeremy Wall) – 5:37
“Yosemite” (Wall) – 5:21
“The Archer” (Richie Morales) – 4:59
“Captain Karma” (Schuman) – 5:40

Personnel:
Spyro Gyra:

Jay Beckenstein – saxophones, wind driven synthesizer
Tom Schuman – keyboards
Julio Fernández – guitars
Oskar Cartaya – bass
Richie Morales – drums, percussion
Dave Samuels – vibraphone, marimba, percussion

Additional Personnel:

Steve Shapiro – synthesizer programming

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Released: June 1988
Studio: Bear Tracks Studios (Suffern, New York)
Length: 45:04
Label: MCA
Producer: Jay Beckenstein