“The most adventurous quartet in contemporary jazz music.”
—All Music Guide
Jazz Celebration Weekend
Saturday | November 9, 2013 | 7:30 p.m.
Since their formation in 1977, The Yellowjackets’ stylistic hybridity has solidified the group’s status as one of jazz’s most enduring and wide-reaching outfits.
The ensemble’s matchless approach to fusion has earned it two Grammy Awards among a slew of nominations. Of the Yellowjackets’ eclectic sensibility, All About Jazz wrote: “From their R&B beginnings in ’81 right through to the sophisticated and utterly distinctive brand of jazz they play today, the Yellowjackets have moved with the times, absorbing different aspects of world music and adding new rhythms and influences to the pot.”
Today the prolific group is comprised of Russell Ferrante on keyboard, Bob Mintzer on sax, Felix Pastorius on bass and William Kennedy on drums.