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AndyBob09
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Hey all,

I've been asked to play in a band that plays the music of Yellowjackets. I've aways known OF Yellowjackets but have never been in to them.

Can anyone recommend a sort of 5 album list that I should go out and buy to sink my teeth in to them over the next few weeks before I receive any sort of charts for the music and so I don't seem like a total plonker on the first rehearsal.

Cheers in advance!

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Sorry for keeping no charts, but here is my 5 album list of the Yellowjackets, which I love:

"Yellowjackets"
Their debut album back in ´81. With Ricky Lawson on drums and Robben Ford on guitar. It´s a top-of-the-game JazzFunk example and note Haslips cool thumpin and pluckin bass!

With joining of the great Bob Mintzer the band became extrordinaire on:

"Run For Yer Life"

"Dreamland"

"Blue Hats"

"Club Nocturne"

I really dig the the deep locking connection between Haslip and drummer Will Kennedy, which is one of my all-favourite drummers. His skilled successor Marcus Baylor changed the band sound into a lot cooler, intellectual thing, which wasn´t my cup of tea over the years since Kennedy came these days back to the Jackets again to fill in.

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Best of luck to you... YJ music usually has lots of chords and quite a few tunes have unison piano/bass bits. "Like A River" is one of my fave albums - I did a transcription of Man Facing North which I posted on here ages ago. The Sher Real Books have quite a few charts. Four Corners is another interesting album, as is Blue Hats. I must admit though that it's easy to go off them and I haven't listened to them since Altered State, which didn't do it for me...

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