The Great Explorers

The Great Explorers
Studio album by Frank Gambale
Released	1993 (1993)
Recorded	Milagro Sound Recorders in Glendale, California; Silverlake Sound Studios in Los Angeles
Genres	Instrumental rock, jazz fusion
Length	51:41
Label	Victor
Producers	Frank Gambale, Takashi Misu
Frank Gambale chronology
Note Worker (1991) The Great Explorers (1993) Passages (1994)

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The Great Explorers is the fifth studio album by guitarist Frank Gambale, released in 1993 through Victor Entertainment and reissued on 24 April 2001 through Samson Records.

Track listing

All music is composed by Frank Gambale, except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Frankly Speaking"	5:33
2.	"The Final Frontier"	4:53
3.	"The Jaguar" (Gambale, Gary Hoey)	4:13
4.	"The Great Explorers"	5:48
5.	"Duet Tuet"	0:44
6.	"She Knows Me Well" (Gambale, Gary Hoey)	4:34
7.	"Thunder Current"	6:11
8.	"Pathfinder"	4:19
9.	"Dawn Over the Nullarbor"	4:43
10.	"Cruising Altitude"	4:45
11.	"Naughty Business"	5:58
Total length:		51:41

Personnel

• Frank Gambale – guitar, electric sitar, synthesizer melody (track 11), sequencing, drum programming (track 9), drums (track 10), bass (track 10), spoken vocals, mixing, production
• Freddie Ravel – keyboard, Hammond organ (track 3), synthesizer solo (track 11), piano
• Tom Coster – Hammond organ (tracks 2, 11)
• Jonathan Mover – drums (except track 10), cymbals (track 9)
• Stuart Hamm – bass (except track 10)
• Robert M. Biles – engineering, mixing (except tracks 2, 3, 6)
• Chris Wood – engineering assistance
• Darren Mora – engineering assistance
• Walter Spencer – engineering assistance
• Tony Cornejo – engineering assistance
• Kevin Davis – engineering assistance
• Micajah Ryan – mixing (tracks 2, 3, 6)
• Bernie Grundman – mastering
• Takashi Misu – executive production

External links

• In Review: Frank Gambale "The Great Explorers" at Guitar Nine Records