Down the Wire

Down the Wire is the thirty-first album by Spyro Gyra, released on April 28, 2009. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album in 2010.[1] Down the Wire peaked at No. 9 on the jazz album chart at Billboard magazine.[2]

Down the Wire
Studio album by Spyro Gyra
Released	April 28, 2009
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	65:14
Label	Heads Up
Producer	Dave Love
Spyro Gyra chronology
A Night Before Christmas (2008) Down the Wire (2009) A Foreign Affair (2011)

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Down the Wire" (Scott Ambush)	5:57
2.	"Unspoken" (Julio Fernandez)	5:51
3.	"Not for Nothin'" (Tom Schuman)	5:02
4.	"Island Pond" (Jay Beckenstein)	6:00
5.	"The Tippin' Point" (Beckenstein/Schuman)	5:24
6.	"Ice Mountain" (Bonny Bonaparte)	6:58
7.	"A Flower for Anne Jeanette" (Ambush)	7:05
8.	"La Zona Rosa" (Beckenstein)	6:22
9.	"What It Is" (Fernandez)	6:23
10.	"A Distant Memory" (Beckenstein/Schuman)	4:42
11.	"Make It Mine" (Bonaparte)	5:30

Personnel

Spyro Gyra

• Jay Beckenstein – saxophones
• Tom Schuman – keyboards
• Julio Fernández – guitars
• Scott Ambush – bass guitar
• Bonny Bonaparte – drums, percussion, vocals

Additional musicians

• Gerardo Velez – percussion (2, 7), horn (8)
• Marc Quiñones – percussion (8)
• Bill Harris – tenor saxophone, flute
• Ozzie Melendez – trombone
• Don Harris – trumpet

Production

• Jay Beckenstein – producer
• Dave Love – executive producer
• Mike Brylinsky – engineer
• Justin Rose – engineer
• Martin Walters – mixing, mastering
• Natalie Singer – producer manager
• Robert Hoffman – art direction, design, photography

References

1. "Complete list of Grammy nominations – East Bay Times". East Bay Times. 3 December 2009. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
2. "Spyro Gyra - Chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 15 April 2017.