Incognito is the sixth album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1982. At Billboard magazine, it reached No. 46 on the Top 200 Albums chart, and No. 2 on that magazine's Jazz Albums chart.
Track listing
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).