Spyro Gyra - Incognito

Not one of the all-time great CD's, but one of my personal all-time favorites. My Amazon review reads, in part:

Although I had been familiar with Spyro Gyra since hearing Morning Dance on AM Radio when it was a crossover hit, Incognito was the first Spyro Gyra album that I bought. I was sixteen years old, and most of my album purchases were along the lines of Duran Duran and Adam Ant, but this album captured my attention from the first playing. I remember the mystery that surrounded the packaging. No pictures of the band. Band personnel changed from one track to the next. What was with this group with the misspelled name?

Of course the purchase of this album immediately brought about the purchase of other SG albums, but this has always been my favorite. It is immediately relaxing and puts me in a good mood from the first bass note. The album, then CD, have never been far from my stereo. I highly recommend this CD. Albums in this period, including "City Kids" and "Freetime" represent, to me, the peak of this group's career.

I enjoy listening to this CD when I'm melancholy or on a rainy day like today. This was one of the first "jazz" albums I ever bought and opened me to a new kind of music. Of course, at 16, I was open to all kinds of new music. These days, I've become more close-minded.

This was released in 1982 on MCA Records. I've listened to it quite a bit over the past 22 years. In fact, I'm listening to it as I write these words.

Daddy like.