Sky Islands (Caldera album)

Sky Islands is the second album by Jazz fusion group Caldera released in 1977 on Capitol Records. The album rose to No. 18 on the Cashbox Top 40 Jazz Albums chart.

Covers
The album's title track was covered by Dianne Reeves on her 1987 self titled album and Ramsey Lewis on his 1993 LP Sky Islands.

A version of "Ancient Source" resulted from the collaboration between Herb Alpert and Caldera keyboardist Eddie del Barrio and appeared on Alpert's 1988 release Under a Spanish Moon.

Personnel

 * Jorge Strunz — acoustic guitar, electric guitar, percussion
 * Eduardo del Barrio — acoustic piano, electric piano, synthesizers, Moog, Roland, Oberheim Polyphonic
 * Steve Tavaglione — flute, alto flute, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
 * Mike Azeredo — congas, percussion
 * Carlos Vega — drums
 * Dean Cortez — electric bass
 * Hector Andrade — timbales, congas, percussion
 * Ernesto Herrera - lyricist.

Guests

 * Larry Dunn — synthesizer (solo on track 2)
 * Roberto da Silva — percussion
 * Dianne Reeves — vocals (tracks 1 and 2)
 * Chester Thompson — drums (track 4 only)
 * Ralph Humphrey — drums (track 1 only)
 * Ralph Rickert — flugelhorn (track 8 only)
 * Ray Armando — percussion
 * Steve Barrio, Jr. — percussion
 * Paul Shure — violin
 * Bonnie Douglas — violin
 * Harry Bluestone — violin
 * Marshall Sosson — violin
 * Nathan Ross — violin
 * Antol Kaminsky — violin
 * Jack Pepper — violin
 * Irma Neumann — violin
 * Janet Lakatos — viola
 * Louis Kievman — viola
 * Fredrick Seykora — cello
 * Selene Hurford – cello
 * Shusei Nagaoka – cover art