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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's Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart.[5] It was nominated for a Grammy Award, in the "Best Contemporary Jazz Performance" category.[6]

Run for Your Life
Studio album by Yellowjackets
Released	1994
Genre	Jazz
Length	53:22
Label	GRP[1]
Producer	Yellowjackets[2]
Yellowjackets chronology
Like a River (1993) Run for Your Life (1994) Dreamland (1995)

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]
The Charlotte Observer	[8]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music	[9]

The Globe and Mail opined that "only tenor saxophonist Bon Mintzer's 'The Red Sea' is particularly memorable."[10] 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."[8]

Track listing

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).

Charts

Chart (1994)	Peak position
Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums[5]	8

References

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