Run for Your Life (Yellowjackets album)

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Run for Your Life
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Studio album by
Yellowjackets
Released1994
Recorded O'Henry Sound Studios (Burbank, CA)
The Complex (Los Angeles, CA)
Genre Jazz
Length53:22
Label GRP [1]
Producer Yellowjackets [2]
Yellowjackets chronology
Like a River
(1993)		Run for Your Life
(1994)		 Dreamland
(1995)

Run for Your Life is an album by the American jazz group Yellowjackets, released in 1994. [3] [4] The album reached a peak position of number eight on Billboard 's Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. [5] It was nominated for a Grammy Award, in the "Best Contemporary Jazz Performance" category. [6]

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Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [7]
The Charlotte Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [8]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]

The Globe and Mail opined that "only tenor saxophonist Bon Mintzer's 'The Red Sea' is particularly memorable." [10] The Charlotte Observer called Run for Your Life "the best jazz album of the year," writing that it "is a collection of nine simply superior jazz cuts, each showing off the band's precision and ability." [8]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Jacket Town" Russell Ferrante, William Kennedy5:25
2."Even Song"Ferrante, Jimmy Haslip, Kennedy6:33
3."Runferyerlife" Bob Mintzer 4:22
4."The Red Sea"Mintzer5:45
5."Muhammed"Ferrante, Haslip6:47
6."City of Lights"Ferrante6:56
7."Sage"Mintzer5:04
8."Ancestors"Mintzer5:01
9."Wisdom"Ferrante, Haslip7:29

Personnel

Yellowjackets

Additional musicians

Production

Studios

Charts

Chart (1994)Peak
position
US Top Contemporary Jazz Albums (Billboard) [5] 8

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References

  1. ↑ Chapman, Geoff (2 Apr 1994). "Run For Your Life". Toronto Star. p. K8.
  2. ↑ "Album reviews — Run For Your Life by Yellowjackets". Billboard. 106 (12): 62. Mar 19, 1994.
  3. ↑ Darragh, Tim (18 Feb 1994). "YELLOWJACKETS TRUE TO ROOTS DESPITE COMMERCIAL APPEAL". The Morning Call. p. D7.
  4. ↑ "Yellowjackets Take Expansive Approach". downbeat.com. January 5, 2021.
  5. 1 2 "Yellowjackets: Charts & Awards". AllMusic . Retrieved August 1, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Yellowjackets". Recording Academy. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  7. ↑ Yanow, Scott. Yellowjackets: Run for Your Life > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved December 1, 2011.
  8. 1 2 "Jazzy". The Charlotte Observer. May 27, 1994. p. 7E.
  9. ↑ Larkin, Colin (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music. MUZE. p. 487.
  10. ↑ Miller, Mark (28 Feb 1994). "Run For Your Life/Yellowjackets". The Globe and Mail. p. C2.
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