Rites of Summer

Rites of Summer is the twelfth album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1988. At Billboard magazine, No. 104 on the Top 200 Albums chart.^[2][3]

Rites of Summer
Studio album by Spyro Gyra
Released	June 1988
Studio	BearTracks Studios (Suffern, New York)
Genre	Jazz, jazz fusion
Length	45:04
Label	MCA
Producer	Jay Beckenstein
Spyro Gyra chronology
Stories Without Words (1987) Rites of Summer (1988) Point of View (1989)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Track listing

1. "Claire's Dream" (Jay Beckenstein) – 5:39
2. "Daddy's Got a New Girl Now" (Beckenstein) – 4:02
3. "Limelight" (Dave Samuels) – 4:27
4. "Shanghai Gumbo" (Julio Fernandez) – 4:28
5. "Innocent Soul" (Tom Schuman) – 4:52
6. "No Man's Land" (Jeremy Wall) – 5:37
7. "Yosemite" (Wall) – 5:21
8. "The Archer" (Richie Morales) – 4:59
9. "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

Production

• Jay Beckenstein – producer
• Jeremy Wall – assistant producer
• Larry Swist – recording, mixing
• Doug Rose – assistant engineer
• Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk (New York, NY)
• Jeff Adamoff – art direction
• Ilene Weingard – design
• Ted Glazer – front cover illustration
• Lynn Goldsmith – back cover photography
• Phil Brennan – management