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City Kids is the seventh album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1983. At Billboard magazine, it reached No. 66 on the Top 200 Albums chart, and No. 2 on that magazine’s Jazz Albums chart.

Track listing:
All tracks are written by Jay Beckenstein except where noted.

1. “City Kids” Tom Schuman 5:11
2. “Serpent in Paradise” 4:45
3. “A Ballad” 5:42
4. “Nightlife” Jeremy Wall 4:32
5. “Islands in the Sky” Wall 6:44
6. “Conversations” Schuman 5:34
7. “Silver Linings” 4:36
8. “Haverstraw Road” 5:00

Personnel:
Spyro Gyra:

Jay Beckenstein – alto saxophone (1, 2, 4, 7, 8), soprano saxophone (2, 3, 5, 6), Lyricon (2, 3)
Tom Schuman – electric piano (1, 5–7), synthesizers (1, 2, 5–7), acoustic piano (7)
Jeremy Wall – acoustic piano (4), synthesizers (4, 5)
Chet Catallo – guitars (1–3, 5, 8), guitar solo (7)
Kim Stone – bass (1)
Eli Konikoff – drums (1)
Gerardo Velez – percussion (1, 5, 7)
Dave Samuels – vibraphone (3, 5, 6), marimba (4–6)

Guest musicians:

Jorge Dalto – acoustic piano (3)
Richard Tee – electric piano (4, 8), acoustic piano (8)
Hiram Bullock – guitars (2, 4, 7)
Steve Love – guitars (2, 4, 5, 8), guitar solo (2, 4), acoustic guitar (7), electric guitar (7)
Will Lee – bass (2, 4)
Eddie Gómez – bass (3, 6)
Marcus Miller – bass (5, 7, 8)
Steve Jordan – drums (2, 4, 7)
Steve Gadd – drums (3, 5, 6, 8), percussion (4, 8)
Manolo Badrena – percussion (2, 3, 5, 6), congas (3, 5)
Rob Zantay – Lyricon programming

Horn section:

Jeremy Wall – arrangements and conductor
Jay Beckenstein – alto saxophone
Lou Marini – tenor saxophone
Dave Bargeron – trombone
Alan Rubin – flugelhorn, trumpet
Lew Soloff – flugelhorn, trumpet

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Released: 1983
Studio: BearTracks (Suffern, New York)
Length: 42:03
Label: MCA
Producer: Jay Beckenstein, Richard Calandra