Road Scholars

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Road Scholars
Road Scholars Spyro Gyra 1999 album.jpg
Live album by
Spyro Gyra
ReleasedMarch 24, 1998
Recorded1997
Genre Jazz, smooth jazz
Length50:25
Label GRP
Producer Jay Beckenstein
Spyro Gyra chronology
20/20
(1997)		Road Scholars
(1998)		 Got the Magic
(1999)
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Road Scholars is the second live album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in 1998 by GRP Records on CD and cassette. [2] The final track on the US release, "Best Friends", is a studio recording. [3] This is absent from the European release, which includes an additional live recording, "The Unwritten Letter", as the third track. [4]

Contents

The live tracks were recorded between March 28 and September 12, 1997 in Arizona, California, Florida, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas. [4]

Track listing

US release (GRP-9903) [3]

  1. "Heart of the Night" (Jay Beckenstein) – 6:43
  2. "Breakfast at Igor's" (Beckenstein) – 7:22
  3. "Morning Dance" (Beckenstein) – 4:16
  4. "Shaker Song" (Beckenstein) – 10:16
  5. "Shanghai Gumbo" (Julio Fernandez) – 6:29
  6. "Innocent Soul" (Tom Schuman) – 6:27
  7. "South American Sojourn" (Joel Rosenblatt) – 5:38
  8. "Ariana" (Jeremy Wall) – 6:09
  9. "De la Luz" (Fernandez) – 8:26
  10. "Daddy's Got a New Girl Now" (Beckenstein) – 6:00
  11. "Best Friends" (Scott Kreitzer, Randy Andos) – 4:04

European release (GRP-99132) [4]

Tracks 1–2 as above.

  1. "The Unwritten Letter" (Beckenstein) – 5:46

Tracks 4–11 as tracks 3–10 above.

Personnel

Spyro Gyra

Additional musicians

Production

Live personnel

References

  1. ↑ Henderson, Alex. "Road Scholars". Allmusic . Retrieved November 16, 2021.
  2. ↑ Banan, Amy & Quellette, Dan, eds. (Spring 2000). "Jazz". Schwann Spectrum. Vol. 9, no. 2. Woodland, CA: Schwann Publications. p. 456. ISBN   1575980789. ISSN   1065-9161 – via Internet Archive.
  3. 1 2 Road Scholars (CD insert). New York: GRP Records. 1998. GRP-9903 – via Internet Archive.
  4. 1 2 3 Road Scholars (CD insert). New York: GRP Records. 1998. GRP-99132.
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