Road Scholars Explained

Road Scholars
Type:	live
Artist:	Spyro Gyra
Cover:	Road_Scholars_Spyro_Gyra_1999_album.jpg
Released:	March 24, 1998
Recorded:	1998
Genre:	Jazz, smooth jazz
Length:	50:25
Label:	GRP
Producer:	Jay Beckenstein
Prev Title:	20/20
Prev Year:	1997
Next Title:	Got the Magic
Next Year:	1999

Road Scholars is the second live album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in 1998 by GRP Records. The final track, "Best Friends," is a studio recording.

Track listing

"Heart of the Night" (Jay Beckenstein) – 6:41
"Breakfast at Igor's" (Beckenstein) – 7:20
"Morning Dance" (Beckenstein) – 4:16
"Shaker Song" (Beckenstein) – 10:15
"Shanghai Gumbo" (Julio Fernandez) – 6:28
"Innocent Soul" (Tom Schuman) – 6:28
"South American Sojourn" (Joel Rosenblatt) – 5:36
"Ariana" (Jeremy Wall) – 6:07
"De la Luz" (Fernandez) – 8:24
"Daddy's Got a New Girl Now" (Beckenstein) – 6:01
"Best Friends" (Scott Kreitzer, Randy Andos) – 4:04

Personnel

Spyro Gyra

Jay Beckenstein – saxophones
Tom Schuman – keyboards
Julio Fernández – guitars, vocals (9)
Scott Ambush – 5-string bass, electric upright bass
Joel Rosenblatt – drums, percussion

Additional musicians

Jason Miles – drum programming (11)

Production

Jay Beckenstein – producer
Doug Oberkircher – recording (11), mixing (11)
Ian Fraser – assistant engineer (11)
Track 11 recorded and mixed at BearTracks Studios (Suffern, NY)
Scott Hull – mastering at Masterdisk (New York, NY)
Steve Byram – art direction, design
Hollis King – art direction
David Blankenship – boat landscape photography
Alan Nahigian – band photography

Live personnel

John Caron – production manager, lighting director
Bill Heinzlmeir – monitor engineer, tape operator
Al Oestreich – house sound engineer
Dave Clarke – drum technician

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