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's Jazz Albums chart.^[2]

Samurai Samba
Studio album by Yellowjackets
Released	1985
Studio	Larrabee Sound Studios (Los Angeles, CA) Mad Hatter Recording Studios (Los Angeles, CA) Music Grinder (Los Angeles, CA) Sunset Sound (Los Angeles, CA)
Genre	Jazz
Length	39:12
Label	Warner
Producer	Tommy LiPuma, Yellowjackets
Yellowjackets chronology
Mirage a Trois (1983) Samurai Samba (1985) Shades (1986)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Homecoming"	Russell Ferrante	5:13
2.	"Deat Beat"	Ferrante, Jimmy Haslip, Ricky Lawson, Marc Russo	5:25
3.	"Daddy's Gonna Miss You"	Ferrante, Haslip, Lawson, Russo	4:33
4.	"Sylvania"	Ferrante, Haslip, Lawson	4:14
5.	"Silverlake"	Ferrante	5:45
6.	"Lonely Weekend"	Ferrante, Joseph Curiale, Lawson, Caldwell	4:20
7.	"Los Mambos"	Ferrante, Russo, Paulinho da Costa	4:24
8.	"Samurai Samba"	Ferrante	5:18

Personnel

Yellowjackets

• Russell Ferrante – keyboards
• Jimmy Haslip – 5-string bass
• Ricky Lawson – acoustic drums, Simmons drums
• Marc Russo – alto saxophone

Additional musicians

• Rory Kaplan – Fairlight CMI programming
• Michael Landau – guitars
• Carlos Rios – guitars
• Paulinho da Costa – percussion, vocals, lead vocals (7, listed as Paulo da Costa Jr.)
• Marilyn Scott – vocals
• Carl Caldwell – vocals
• Bobby Caldwell – lead vocals (6)

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

Studios

• Recorded at Larrabee Sound Studios (North Hollywood, CA); Sunset Sound and Music Grinder Studios (Hollywood, CA); Mad Hatter Studios (Los Angeles, CA).
• Mixed at Sunset Sound

Charts

Chart (1985)	Peak position
Billboard 200[2]	179
Billboard Jazz Albums[2]	10