{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = The Great Explorers | type = studio | artist = Frank Gambale | cover = Frank Gambale - 1990 - The Great Explorers.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1993}}<ref name=cdbaby>[http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/FrankGambale5 "The Great Explorers by Frank Gambale"]. CD Baby. Retrieved 2013-11-13.</ref> | recorded = Milagro Sound Recorders in Glendale, California; Silverlake Sound Studios in Los Angeles | venue = | studio = | genre = Instrumental rock,<ref name=cdbaby/><ref>[http://www.frankgambale.com/album.php?cd=10 "The Great Explorers"]. frankgambale.com. Retrieved 2013-11-13.</ref><ref name=allmusic>Henderson, Alex. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-great-explorers-mw0000618677 "The Great Explorers - Frank Gambale"]. ''AllMusic''. All Media Network. Retrieved 2013-11-13.</ref> jazz fusion | length = {{Duration|m=51|s=41}} | label = Victor | producer = Frank Gambale, Takashi Misu | prev_title = Note Worker | prev_year = 1991 | next_title = Passages | next_year = 1994 }} {{Album ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=allmusic/> }}
'''''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.<ref>[http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1693717/a/great+explorers.htm "Frank Gambale - Great Explorers CD"]. CD Universe. Retrieved 2013-11-13.</ref><ref>[https://www.frankgambale.com/discography.htm "Discography"]. frankgambale.com. Retrieved 2023-04-04.</ref>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | all_music = Frank Gambale, except where noted | title1 = Frankly Speaking | length1 = 5:33 | title2 = The Final Frontier | length2 = 4:53 | title3 = The Jaguar | note3 = Gambale, Gary Hoey | length3 = 4:13 | title4 = The Great Explorers | length4 = 5:48 | title5 = Duet Tuet | length5 = 0:44 | title6 = She Knows Me Well | note6 = Gambale, Gary Hoey | length6 = 4:34 | title7 = Thunder Current | length7 = 6:11 | title8 = Pathfinder | length8 = 4:19 | title9 = Dawn Over the Nullarbor | length9 = 4:43 | title10 = Cruising Altitude | length10 = 4:45 | title11 = Naughty Business | length11 = 5:58 | total_length = 51:41 }}
==Personnel== <!--All credits sourced from liner notes.--> *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
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==External links== *[http://www.guitar9.com/thegreatexplorers.html In Review: Frank Gambale "The Great Explorers"] at Guitar Nine Records
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