Yellowjackets are a group of jazz fusion musicians whose current line-up
features Russell Ferrante on keyboards, Bob Mintzer on saxophone and clarinet,
Will Kennedy on drums and Dane Alderson on bass. Since the early 1980s the
band's mix of R&B and jazz has brought international acclaim with more than two
dozen albums released since their self-titled debut in 1981, many of them top 20
hits on the Billboard Jazz Albums Chart along with hit singles and two Grammy
Awards. The band formed originally as the Robben Ford Group in 1977 in Los
Angeles when guitarist Ford gathered veteran ...