Performance · Production
Jay Beckenstein
Brooklyn, United States
Jay Beckenstein is credited on 622 releases across 128 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1977–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
622
Pressings credited
128
Albums
6
Decades active
176
In collections
Biography
Jay Barnet Beckenstein (born May 14, 1951) is an American saxophonist, composer, producer, and the co-founder of the band Spyro Gyra. He owned BearTracks Studios in Suffern, New York.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
622 releases · 128 albums · active 1977–2025
- Performance · 1,328
- Production · 411
- Other credits · 11
Studios: Mark Studios · Blue Rock Studio · BearTracks Recording Studio · House Of Music, West Orange, NJ
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Images And Words
1992
Morning Dance
1979
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
1999
Catching The Sun
1980
Spyro Gyra
1977
Once In A Livetime
1998
Carnaval
1980
Alternating Currents
1985
Extensions
1979
Live Scenes From New York
2001
Freetime
1981
Greatest Hit (...And 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs)
2008
Stories Without Words
1987
City Kids
1983
Fast Forward
1990
Breakout
1986
Incognito
1982
Hands Down
1982
Point Of View
1989
Rites Of Summer
1988
Sign Of The Times
1981
Classic Jazz-Funk - Mastercuts Volume 1
1991
Access All Areas
1984
Orleans
1980
Frequent collaborators
- Spyro Gyra
- Various
- Dream Theater
- Dave Samuels
- The Manhattan Transfer
- Bob James
- Fergie (2)
- Basia
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