Timeline (Yellowjackets album)

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Timeline
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Studio album by
Released2011 (2011)
StudioFirehouse Recording Studios (Pasadena, CA)
Genre Jazz
Length62:09
Label Mack Avenue
Producer Yellowjackets
Yellowjackets chronology
Lifecycle
(2008)
Timeline
(2011)
A Rise in the Road
(2013)

Timeline is an album by the American jazz group Yellowjackets, released in 2011. The album reached a peak position of number five on Billboard 's Top Jazz Albums chart, [1] and was nominated for Best Jazz Instrumental Album at the Grammy Awards of 2012.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Why Is It" Bob Mintzer 5:04
2."Tenacity"Mintzer6:07
3."Rosemary"Will Kennedy4:54
4."Timeline" Russell Ferrante 5:11
5."Magnolia"Ferrante, Jimmy Haslip 4:36
6."A Single Step"Ferrante7:05
7."Indivisible"Ferrante5:22
8."Like Elvin"Mintzer5:32
9."My Soliloquy"Mintzer6:23
10."Numerology"Ferrante5:56
11."I Do"Ferrante6:01

Personnel

Yellowjackets

Guest Musicians

Production

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References

  1. "Yellowjackets: Charts & Awards". Allmusic . Retrieved August 1, 2011.