Run for Your Life (Yellowjackets album) explained

Run for Your Life
Type:	studio
Artist:	Yellowjackets
Cover:	Run for Your Life (Yellowjackets album).jpg
Released:	1994
Recorded:	O'Henry Sound Studios (Burbank, CA) The Complex (Los Angeles, CA)
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	GRP^[1]
Producer:	Yellowjackets^[2]
Prev Title:	Like a River
Prev Year:	1993
Next Title:	Dreamland
Next Year:	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 Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart.^[5] It was nominated for a Grammy Award, in the "Best Contemporary Jazz Performance" category.^[6]

Critical reception

The Globe and Mail opined that "only tenor saxophonist Bon Mintzer's 'The Red Sea' is particularly memorable."^[7] 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."

Personnel

Yellowjackets

• Russell Ferrante – keyboards
• Jimmy Haslip – bass, vocals
• Will Kennedy – drums
• Bob Mintzer – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, EWI

Additional musicians

• Steve Croes – Synclavier
• Judd Miller – synthesizer programming
• Robben Ford – guitars

Production

• Yellowjackets – producers
• Mick Guzauski – recording engineer
• James Farber – recording engineer, mixing
• Richard Landers – assistant engineer
• Gil Morales – assistant engineer
• Chad Blinman – mix assistant
• Joseph Doughney – post-production engineer
• Michael Landy – post-production engineer
• Kevin Gray – mastering
• Sally G. Poppe – production coordinator
• Margi Denton – design
• Tim Lewis – illustration
• Philip Avery Noble – photography

Studios

• Recorded at O'Henry Sound Studios (Burbank, CA) and The Complex (Los Angeles, CA).
• Mixed at The Complex
• Mastered at Location Recording Service (Burbank, CA).
• Post-Production at The Review Room (New York, NY).

Notes and References

1. News: Chapman . Geoff . Run For Your Life . Toronto Star . 2 Apr 1994 . K8.
2. Album reviews — Run For Your Life by Yellowjackets . Billboard . Mar 19, 1994 . 106 . 12 . 62.
3. News: Darragh . Tim . YELLOWJACKETS TRUE TO ROOTS DESPITE COMMERCIAL APPEAL . The Morning Call . 18 Feb 1994 . D7.
4. Web site: Yellowjackets Take Expansive Approach. January 5, 2021. downbeat.com.
5. Web site: Yellowjackets: Charts & Awards. AllMusic. August 1, 2011.
6. Web site: Yellowjackets . Recording Academy . 10 August 2022.
7. News: Miller . Mark . Run For Your Life/Yellowjackets . The Globe and Mail . 28 Feb 1994 . C2.