Road Scholars is the second live album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in 1998 by GRP Records on CD and cassette. The final track on the US release, "Best Friends", is a studio recording. This is absent from the European release, which includes an additional live recording, "The Unwritten Letter", as the third track.

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

Track listing

US release (GRP-9903) Source: "Heart of the Night" (Jay Beckenstein) – 6:43 "Breakfast at Igor's" (Beckenstein) – 7:22 "Morning Dance" (Beckenstein) – 4:16 "Shaker Song" (Beckenstein) – 10:16 "Shanghai Gumbo" (Julio Fernandez) – 6:29 "Innocent Soul" (Tom Schuman) – 6:27 "South American Sojourn" (Joel Rosenblatt) – 5:38 "Ariana" (Jeremy Wall) – 6:09 "De la Luz" (Fernandez) – 8:26 "Daddy's Got a New Girl Now" (Beckenstein) – 6:00 "Best Friends" (Scott Kreitzer, Randy Andos) – 4:04

European release (GRP-99132) Source:

Tracks 1–2 as above.

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

Tracks 4–11 as tracks 3–10 above.

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

References

External links Spyro Gyra-Road Scholars at Discogs Spyro Gyra-Road Scholars at AllMusic Spyro Gyra official web site