Run for Your Life (Yellowjackets album)

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Run for Your Life
Run for Your Life (Yellowjackets album).jpg
Studio album by
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]

Contents

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

Charts

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

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. Vol. 106, no. 12. Mar 19, 1994. p. 62.
  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.