Home » Search Center » Results: yellowjackets
Results for "yellowjackets"
Yellowjackets: Peace Round
by Woodrow Wilkins
Christmas albums are a dime a dozen. Yet in the hands of skillful, forward-thinking musicians, even the most frequently recorded holiday classics deserve another listen. This is certainly the case with the Yellowjackets' Peace Round. The quartet of Russell Ferrante, Jimmy Haslip, Bob Mintzer and Marcus Baylor provides a fresh, unique approach to the ...
Yellowjackets: Yellowjackets
by Chris M. Slawecki
Most contemporary jazz or instrumental pop albums released over the past 25 years owe one thing or another to the style and sound advanced by this 1981 debut. When keyboardist, composer and arranger Russell Ferrante pulled drummer Ricky Lawson and bassist Jimmy Haslip into his fledgling swarm, he also called on guitarist Robben Ford, ...
Yellowjackets: Yellowjackets
by John Kelman
The Yellowjackets have always suffered from a misdirected association with smooth jazz, but the truth of the matter is that they have always had a stronger edge, with driving rhythms and virtuoso playing that set them apart from their peers. Recent efforts, including the live Mint Jam and their most recent studio release, Time Squared show ...
Peace Round
Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Little Drummer Boy; Silent Night; Deck the Halls; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; Peace
Round; The First Noel; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Oh Little Town of Bethlehem; Winter
Wonderland; In a Silent Night.
Yellowjackets: Peace Round
by Jim Santella
Their first Christmas album in a career that has spanned over 25 years allows the Yellowjackets to share the holiday spirit with a world in which more holiday time-outs seem to be the best medicine for what ails our society. This time of the year, things do slow down a little. Never enough, of course; but ...
Yellowjackets: The Best of Yellowjackets
by David Adler
From this greatest hits collection one learns that the album to get is 1981's Yellowjackets, the one with the honeycomb cover. The album to avoid, on the other hand, is 1985's Samurai Samba. Mirage a Trois, released in 1983, falls somewhere in between. Sweepingly general overview: The group started out great with fire-breathing guitarist Robben Ford, ...
