Yellowjackets--Worth Seeing or Not?

[Hot Ptah]

I have a ticket for the Yellowjackets for this weekend, as I bought tickets for an entire series of concerts. I have not seen them live. Are they worth seeing, or are they fairly dull fusion fare without much interest?

[etherbored]

they're worth seeing. they're more of an acoustic quartet format now than a fusion group, per se.

[CJ Shearn]

they have gone the straight ahead route, still a lot of R&B in their sound, but the albums "Mint Jam", "Time Squared" and "25"(which comes with a bonus DVD) are all worth checking out. Bob Mintzer is a great player, and one of the finest Brecker influenced tenors around. I really believe he and Bob Franceschini are carrying Mike's torch.

[Chuck Nessa]

YES, this is the top level of jazz today.

Might be a "fun show" but I would expect more.

[Rooster_Ties]

Gotta mostly side with Chuck on this one.

Well, I would anyway if you were asking if you should buy tickets and go. But since you've ALREADY got tickets, then I guess you could go either way.

But, if I was pressed for time with other commitments, and I only had so many evenings that week or month that I could afford the time to devote to getting out to listen to some live music -- I'm sure there would be other choices I'd avail myself of.

Just saying that there're LOTS of things I'd go to if I had 'free' tickets. But having the time to go to them, anymore -- that's also a factor for me. (And a lot more than when I was in my younger days.)

[CJ Shearn]

seriously, anything the YJ have done starting with "Greenhouse", is excellent. "Mint Jam" is a live album that shows them at their straight ahead best, features a burning workout on Bob Mintzer's rhythm changes "Runferyerlife" and another corker "Statue of Liberty".