Run For Your Life

Yellowjackets | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 23, 2012)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: GRP Records
• ASIN: B0000001TH
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,157 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Run For Your Life by Yellowjackets

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Surprising outing!!!, June 21, 2003

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Neyetro "Jazzyone" (Atlanta, GA (Austell)) - See all my reviews

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Run For Your Life is in my view the Yellowjackets hardest push towards "true fusion" and even post bop structures. The musicianship on this album appears to be more serious in a jazz-sense than on past albums. The gents even get a little bluesy on the cut "Even Song" which features group founder and ex-bandmate Robben Ford on guitar. (This song probably is a taste of what the 'Jackets would truly be if he was still in the group.) "City of Lights" and the title cut "Runferyourlife" are absolutely scintillating and a delight to listen to. I've owned this CD for nearly ten years and it continues to enter my deck. Each time I play it for someone, they ask who is that?! Overall, I rank this at the top of their recordings behind Four Corners and Dreamland.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Living Music, September 30, 2000

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D. Peterson (Orem, Utah United States) - See all my reviews
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The hardest thing to get around when starting to listen to the Yellowjackets is their label as "crossover." While this isn't entirely false, it is very misleading. In truth, the Yellowjackets are among the most responsive groups around, with a sound that is both versatile and wonderfully distinctive. This album is perhaps their strongest from a purist's point of view. On tracks like "Jacket Town," the group gets pretty soulful. Yet on "Muhammed" and "City of Lights," they play such adventurous material that the name "smooth jazz" couldn't possibly work. Even at their most pleasant, the Yellowjackets play with a surprising intelligence, Ferrante's gorgeous harmonies and Mintzer's excellent reed work complemented by Haslip's very individual bass playing and Kennedy's perfectly timed drumming. Things never seem manufactured though. On "Muhammed" Bob Mintzer wails away (on tenor) in a style reminiscent of late-period 'Trane and Ferrante pounds it out in an early Chick Corea vein. The Yellowjackets deserve attention from those with a serious interest in improvised music. This album should give evidence to that point.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another GREAT Yellowjacket recording, February 26, 2010

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Russell A. Levine - See all my reviews
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First, I have to preface this review by stating that the Yellowjackets are my favorite band on the planet. As a musician, I am nearly always delighted by this groups musicianship, creativity and diversity. These are fantastic musicians!

Having said that, I must say that "Run For Your Life" is a slight departure from the work that came before and pretty much since from this group as it is "straight ahead" jazz. And, it is really well done.

Yellowjackets music is very often difficult to categorize because it is of such a diverse nature and so creative, but the jazz-like nature of this recording is a rare exception in this groups mid-evolution when this recording was made.

If you are hip to this group's style and ability, or even if you are not that familiar with them, I think you will enjoy this CD. The only exception is if you are looking for popular music with vocals and you don't like jazz.

Highly recommended.