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.

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
 * 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