Lifecycle (album)

Lifecycle is the 17th studio album by the American jazz group Yellowjackets featuring Mike Stern, released in 2008. The album reached a peak position of number six on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart.^[2]

Lifecycle
Studio album by Yellowjackets featuring Mike Stern
Released	May 20, 2008
Studio	BiCostal Music (Ossining, NY)
Genre	Jazz
Length	1:02:43
Label	Heads Up
Producer	Yellowjackets
Yellowjackets chronology
Twenty Five (2006) Lifecycle (2008) Timeline (2011)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Falken's Maze"	Bob Mintzer	6:25
2.	"Country Living"	Jimmy Haslip	6:25
3.	"Double Nickel"	Mike Stern	6:43
4.	"Dreams Go"	Stern	6:49
5.	"Measure of a Man"	Russell Ferrante	7:34
6.	"Yahoo"	Mintzer	4:53
7.	"I Wonder"	Mintzer	6:01
8.	"3 Circles"	Marcus Baylor, Ferrante, Haslip, Mintzer	7:32
9.	"Claire's Closet"	Ferrante	5:06
10.	"Lazaro"	Haslip, Mintzer	5:15

Personnel

Yellowjackets

• Russell Ferrante – acoustic piano, keyboards, percussion
• Jimmy Haslip – electric bass, programming (10), sequencing (10)
• Marcus Baylor – drums, percussion
• Bob Mintzer – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, Bb clarinet, EWI

Special Guest

• Mike Stern – guitars

Production

• Dave Love – executive producer
• Yellowjackets – producers
• Rich Breen – engineer, mixing, mastering
• Daryl Bornstein – assistant engineer
• Hal Winer – assistant engineer, technician
• Michael Bishop – mastering
• Jerry Mitkowski – piano technician
• Mike Sciotto – technician
• Margi Tobey – video editor
• Natalie Singer – product manager
• Margi Denton – graphic design
• KVON – photography

Management

• Megan Ehrlich, Jeff Neben and Gerry Puhara at Axis Artist Management, Inc.
• Roy Holland – management for Mike Stern.

Studios

• Recorded at BiCostal Music (Ossining, NY).
• Mixed and Mastered at Dogmatic Studios (Burbank, CA).

Charts

Chart (2008)	Peak position
Billboard Top Jazz Albums[2]	6