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

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, released in 1997. The album reached a peak position of number nine on ''

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'' Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart.

Track listing

Personnel

Yellowjackets *

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 ...

– 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

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es * Will Kennedy – drums *

Bob Mintzer Robert Alan Mintzer (born January 27, 1953) is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big band leader. Early life Mintzer was born and raised in a Jewish family in New Rochelle, New York, on January 27, 1953. He attended the Inte ...

– soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone,

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, EWI

Production

* Yellowjackets – producers * Rich Breen – recording * Troy Gonzales – recording assistant * Malcolm Pollack – mixing at

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

(Burbank, California) * 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 at

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(New York City, New York) * Sally Poppy – project coordinator, management * Margi Denton – art direction, design * Caroline Greyshock – photography * Gary Borman – management

Charts

References

{{Authority control 1997 albums Yellowjackets albums Warner Records albums 1990s instrumental albums