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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: The Yellowjackets\nEvent Url: http://www.artsboston
 .org/event/detail/40997/The_Yellowjackets\nEvent Date Begin: 2009-02-27\nE
 vent Date End: 2009-02-28\n\nFor more than 25 years\, the Grammy Award win
 ning ensemble the Yellowjackets have pushed the boundaries of improvisatio
 nal jazz\, and have been leaders in the music's inescapable evolution.  Th
 e Yellowjackets began as the Robben Ford Group\, a three-piece backup unit
  assembled for the guitarist's 1977 release\, 'The Inside Story.' However\
 , when Ford and his band headed in different creative directions\, keyboar
 dist Russell Ferrante\, bassist Jimmy Haslip and drummer Ricky Lawson rena
 med themselves the Yellowjackets and released their self-titled debut albu
 m in 1981.  Throughout the 90s\, the Jackets continued to explore a divers
 e cross-section of sound and rhythm. They entered the new millennium with 
 their self-released Mint Jam\, recorded live at the Mint in Los Angeles in
  July 2001 and released the following year. The two-disc set was nominated
  for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Jazz Album. Backing up the regular lin
 eup of original members Russell Ferrante\, Jimmy Haslip as well as Bob Min
 tzer on Mint Jam is drummer Marcus Baylor\, who has since become a permane
 nt member of the band. Time Squared\, the follow up to Mint Jam\, was rele
 ased on Heads Up in May 2003. Their first studio recording in five years\,
  Time Squared captures much of the energy and spontaneity that made Mint J
 am a formidable Grammy contender. Peace Round\, the 2004 holiday album\, i
 ncludes several traditional holiday songs\, each with a unique contemporar
 y jazz spin. Altered State\, released in March 2005\, continues to merge t
 he traditional with the progressive by exploring unusual time signatures a
 nd exotic rhythms.  The Yellowjackets celebrated their milestone 25th anni
 versary with the 2006 CD/DVD release of the aptly titled Twenty-Five\, whi
 ch captured live performance in France and Italy.  In the summer of 2007\,
  the Yellowjackets were joined by guitar virtuoso Mike Stern for some elec
 trifying performances at the Montreal Jazz Festival. The dates served as t
 he catalyst for Lifecycle\, a Jackets/Stern studio collaboration that just
  garnered the Yellowjackets two more Grammy nominations in the Best Contem
 porary Jazz Album Category for Lifecycle featuring Mike Stern and Russell 
 Ferrante received a nomination for Best Instrumental Composer for 'Claire'
 s Closet' on Lifecycle. Lifecycle is the first Yellowjackets recording in 
 15 years to feature a guitar player\, and illustrates the kind of energy a
 nd creative brilliance that results when five talented players pool their 
 individual skills as songwriters and musicians and merge into an entity th
 at's far greater than the sum of its parts.\n\nStart time: 8pm & 10pm
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SUMMARY:The Yellowjackets
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