I had this on cassette back when it was released. Took it with me on a business trip to San Francisco in early spring. My boss had an apartment out there and a T-top TransAm in a garage. Lent me the keys to both. HAD to go for a drive down the coast with the top off and this album playing. Left me some magical memories.
+Isaac Robinson your post makes me feel like you are a long lost brother. Hahaha! The power of music. A book could be written about how i feel about this one song.
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My wife and I "booked it" from church one summer Sunday afternoon in 2014 to see the Yellowjackets at the "Jazz on the Mountain" festival at Blue Mountain resort, ON, Canada...it was sooooooooooooo worth it! front row seats, had the pleasure of great conversation and photos with all the band members...Russell even sent me the original score for this wonderful track. Tortoise and the Hare is my all-time favorite ever since I heard it on the Melodic Bass Library cassette (yes, I said cassette) over 20 yrs ago! I love listening to it and I love practicing it on the bass from time to time! This track was THE reason I got a fretless! #unforgettable
Bob Mintzer's saxophone is synonymous with the classic Yellowjackets sound, and I'm grateful for his voice and spirit moving through countless cd's, from "Greenhouse" on . . .But this song on Politics, "Tortoise & The Hare", is my favorite Yellowjackets song, because Mark Russo's own voice and spirit is a custom fit to my own when I'm in that state of projecting memory onto future creation
I love this group. I started listening to them and going to their concerts in the 80's. There is nothing like listening to this song, it takes me to a good place.
Usually the title plays such a subtle relationship to the tune that it is almost irrelevant.Not so with this composition I want to laugh, cry and shout out with joy every time I hear it!
This is a master piece ! I'll never understand why Marc Russo left the band and as far as I know never played again compositions like this,, as a front sax in a band., he stayed playing just accompanying Hue Lewis and joining Doobie Bross, what a talent and feeling he has .... and what a pity that he never played again as a frontman sax in other band .... (why?) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Este tema es una joya!, precioso Nunca entenderé porque Marc Russo dejó Yellowjackects, pero todavia entiendo menos que ha estado haciendo todos estos años con los Doobie Brothers sin tocar con alguna otra banda en la que ejercer como saxo frontman y hacer temas propios....., una pena
The deal is Marc Russo. Baddest sax player out there. I met him in Dallas in 2010. I made a comment like "you got the same name as my favorite sax guy" and he took the comment so well. We talked for 45 minutes to an hour.
amedeo corsi I hear ya! I can only imagine that something like this came at one magical moment from somewhere deep within that dude's soul...and the sound of it is so big - I wonder how it was recorded. Russo's phrasing, his sound,. the combinations in the notes he chooses...something about this music makes the synapsis in my brain fire very quickly. Thanks for bringing me back to it with your reply.
Only on RU-vid can you access such beautiful music you’ve never heard before. Yellowjackets played such an important part in my musical journey of discovery
+Peter Cahill It is indeed incredible. I think their song "Mile High" also has an absolutely magical melody part on saxophone. The only other song I've ever heard with as excellent a sax part is Dave Koz' "Castle of Dreams," the first saxophone song I ever heard that blew me away.
A very gentle correction, friend (from a lifetime YJ lover) - that's Marc Russo on alto and soprano sax, he never played tenor that I'm aware of. And yes, Local Hero is absolutely magical (as is the whole Politics album imho)! Cheers! :)
I first heard this jam in 1999 on a friend's mixed tape. I didn't know the name or the band though I suspected that it was the Yellow Jackets. I have been looking for it since then. Finally found it here just yesterday. Thank you!
the concept of this whole song is genius... mainstream chords progressions with with crazy key changes with occasional complex jazz chord progressions.. man I dig!
Man, thanks for posting this tune from the 'Politics' LP, ... you'd make a fellow jazz lover very happy if you could post the song, 'Avance' from the same pressing here as well, ... thanks so much!
I still say this song couldn't possibly have been written by mere mortals, if EVER there was definitive proof of extraterrestrials this is pretty much it...
This original song with MARC RUSSO is exceptional ......even the other live song version sounds nice too, but not as wonderful as this one with Mr. RUSSO performance ...........some thing else !!!!!!!!
lou dime: This is harsh!! This is the most egalitarian band in history. I was incredibly lucky to contribute wee bits to several albums and even to perform live with them on an album.
@@stephencroes55 Wow, so nice to hear from you! What an incredible joy & honor it must be to live with those experiences! As some people have already said here, this album is my absolute truth & a book could be written about my feelings for this one song. I've had the great fortune of seeing the YJ's four times with both Russo and Minter, plus got to hang out & chat awhile with my bass hero Jimmy Haslip in the privacy of their tour bus (he invited me).
marc russo = (y) NO.1 !!! could imagine how YJ sounds now with him and kennedy together - more funky, tight, aggressive, punchy ... what a pity he left the band
