Samurai Samba
Samurai Samba is the third album of the American jazz group Yellowjackets, released in 1985. The album reached a peak position of number 179 on the Billboard 200 and number 10 on Billboard Jazz Albums chart.
Personnel
Yellowjackets- Russell Ferrante – keyboards
- Jimmy Haslip – 5-string bass
- Ricky Lawson – acoustic drums, Simmons drums
- Marc Russo – alto saxophone
- Rory Kaplan – Fairlight CMI programming
- Michael Landau – guitars
- Carlos Rios – guitars
- Paulinho da Costa – percussion, vocals, lead vocals
- Marilyn Scott – vocals
- Carl Caldwell – vocals
- Bobby Caldwell – lead vocals
Production
- Yellowjackets – producers
- Tommy LiPuma – producer
- Erik Zobler – engineer, mixing
- Terry Christian – second engineer
- Toni Greene – second engineer
- Jon Ingoldsby – second engineer
- Peggy McCreary – second engineer
- Casey McMackin – second engineer
- Steve Shelton – second engineer
- Gary Wagner – second engineer
- Simon Levy – art direction, design
- Lou Beach – cover artwork
- Jeff Katz – photography
- Recorded at Larrabee Sound Studios ; Sunset Sound and Music Grinder Studios ; Mad Hatter Studios.
- Mixed at Sunset Sound