''Blue Hats'' is an album by the American jazz group

Yellowjackets A yellowjacket is a black-and-yellow vespid wasp. Yellowjacket(s) or Yellow Jacket(s) may also refer to: Places * Yellow Jacket, Colorado, an unincorporated town * Yellow Jacket, Florida, an unincorporated area in Dixie County, Florida Arts, e ...

, released in 1997. The album reached a peak position of number nine on '' Billboard'' Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart.

Track listing

Personnel

Russell Ferrante Yellowjackets is an American jazz fusion band founded in 1977 in Los Angeles, California. History In 1977, guitarist Robben Ford, for his first solo album, recruited keyboardist Russell Ferrante, electric bassist Jimmy Haslip and drummer Ri ...

– acoustic piano, synthesizers *

Jimmy Haslip James Robert Haslip (born December 31, 1951) is an American bass guitarist who was a founding member of the jazz fusion group the Yellowjackets, which he left in 2012. He was also an early user of the five-string electric bass. Early life and ...

– 5-string basses, 6-string and 7-string

fretless bass A fretless bass is a bass guitar whose neck does not have any frets. While the instrument is played in all styles of music, it is most common in pop, rock, and jazz. It first saw widespread use during the 1970s, although some players used them befo ...

es * Will Kennedy – drums * Bob Mintzer – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, EWI

Production

* Yellowjackets – producers * Rich Breen – recording * Troy Gonzales – recording assistant * Malcolm Pollack – mixing * Brett Swain – mix assistant *

Greg Calbi Gregory Calbi (born April 3, 1949) is an American mastering engineer at Sterling Sound, New Jersey. Biography Greg Calbi was born on April 3, 1949, in Yonkers, New York, and raised in Bayside, Queens, New York. He graduated in 1966 from Bishop ...

– mastering * Sally Poppy – production coordinator, management * Margi Denton – art direction, design * Caroline Greyshock – photography * Gary Borman – management * Recorded at

Sony Music Studios Sony Music Studios was an American music recording and mastering facility in New York City. The five-story building was a music and broadcasting complex located at 460 W. 54th Street, at 10th Avenue, in the Hell's Kitchen section of Manhattan ...

(Santa Monica, California) * Mixed at

O'Henry Sound Studios O'Henry Sound Studios was a commercial studio complex in Burbank, California, that was owned by engineer Hank Sanicola and his wife, Jacqueline Sanicola.

(Burbank, California) * Mastered at Masterdisk (New York City, New York)

Charts

References

{{Authority control 1997 albums Yellowjackets albums Warner Records albums Instrumental albums