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Incognito
Studio album by Spyro Gyra
Released	September 1982
Genre	Jazz, jazz fusion
Length	38:48
Label	MCA
Producer	Jay Beckenstein and Richard Calandra
Spyro Gyra chronology
Freetime (1981) Incognito (1982) City Kids (1983)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic

Incognito is the sixth album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1982. At Billboard it reached No. 46 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

Charts

U.S. Weekly charts

U.S. Year End chart

Personnel

Spyro Gyra

• Jay Beckenstein – saxophones, whistle (2)
• Tom Schuman – keyboards (1), synthesizers (1, 2, 5, 6), acoustic piano (3), electric piano (5, 6, 8)
• Jeremy Wall – electric piano (7)
• Chet Catallo – guitar textures (3), guitars (4, 8)
• John Tropea – guitar textures (3), slide guitar (4), guitars (5, 7)
• Gerardo Velez – percussion (1, 2, 4, 8)
• Dave Samuels – marimba (2, 6, 7), vibraphone (3, 7, 8)

Additional musicians

• Jorge Dalto – acoustic piano (2)
• Rob Mounsey – synthesizers (2, 5–7), vocoder (3, 6, 7)
• Richard Tee – acoustic piano (4, 8), organ (4)
• Hiram Bullock – guitars (1, 6)
• Steve Love – guitars (1, 3–8), acoustic guitar (2), electric guitar (2)
• Will Lee – bass (1)
• Marcus Miller – bass (2–8)
• Steve Gadd – drums
• Manolo Badrena – congas (1), percussion (2, 5–7)
• Crusher Bennett – congas (5, 7)
• Toots Thielemans – harmonica (4)

Horn Section

• Tom Scott – flute, saxophones, Lyricon (5)
• Larry Williams – flute, saxophones
• Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone
• Gary Grant – flugelhorn, trumpet
• Jerry Hey – flugelhorn, trumpet, horn arrangements (1–4, 6, 7, 8)
• Jeremy Wall – horn arrangements (5)

String Section

• Jeremy Wall – string arrangements and conductor
• Harry Lookofsky – concertmaster
• Jonathan Abramowitz and Jesse Levy – cello
• Frederick Buldrini, Peter Dimirtiades, Lewis Eley, Regis Iandiorio, Harold Kohon, Harry Lookofsky, Guy Lumia, Marvin Morgenstern, Matthew Raimondi and Richard Young – violin

Production

• Jay Beckenstein – producer
• Richard Calandra – producer
• Michael Barry – engineer, mixing
• Steve Crimmel – assistant engineer
• Josiah Gluck – assistant engineer
• Debbie Rebhun – assistant engineer
• Nina Siff – assistant engineer
• Larry Swist – assistant engineer
• Bob Ludwig – mastering
• George Osaki – art direction, design
• Michael G. Cobb – cover illustration

Studios

• Recorded at Secret Sound (New York, NY) and Ocean Way Recording (Hollywood, CA).
• Mixed at BearTracks Studios (Suffern, NY).
• Mastered at Masterdisk (New York, NY).

References

1. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r148023
2. "Spyro Gyra - Chart history | Billboard". Billboard. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
3. "Incognito - Spyro Gyra | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
4. "Billboard Top LPs & Tape – November 20, 1982, p. 71" (PDF). Retrieved 16 September 2018.
5. "Billboard Top Selling Jazz LPs – January 8, 1983, p. 59" (PDF). Retrieved 16 September 2018.
6. "Billboard Black LPs – November 27, 1982, p. 56" (PDF). Retrieved 16 September 2018.
7. "Cash Box Top 100 Albums – December 4, 1982, p. 32" (PDF). Retrieved 16 September 2018.
8. "Cash Box Top 30 Jazz Albums – October 30, 1982, p. 11" (PDF). Retrieved 16 September 2018.
9. "Radio & Records Jazz Radio National Airplay – November 12, 1982, p. 52" (PDF). Retrieved 16 September 2018.
10. "Billboard Top Jazz Albums – December 24, 1983, p. TA-32" (PDF). Retrieved 16 September 2018.

• 1982 albums
• Spyro Gyra albums
• MCA Records albums