They finally scored a Grammy win the seventh time around, in 2018 for the album Prototype.įor more information on Jeff Lorber, visit his website. Since those days, Lorber and his colleagues have scaled the heights of popularity, touring internationally and garnering six Grammy Award nominations. Working with Chick and Joe, we were able to get national exposure, which helped my career immensely.” He was very supportive and a super nice guy. In the ’70s, I made friends with Chick by writing him letters and sending him some transcriptions of his music. Luckily, I had a budget big enough to hire some name players on my follow-up album Soft Space, and I was able to get Chick and Joe Farrell. “Without Chick Corea,” he says, “I might not have a career! My first record came out on a small label called Inner City. Meek, on soprano sax, and Laws appear on one of the album’s highlights, “Chick,” which is dedicated to the late Chick Corea, an important early figure for Lorber. Jackson’s guitars-a regular component of another Lorber-led group, Jazz Funk Soul-enliven “Back Room” and “Truth,” while Landau’s take the spotlight for “Sun Princess,” “Louisiana,” and the ballad “Day One.” The original Jeff Lorber Fusion took an extended hiatus in the early ’80s, reemerging and recharging in 2010 with an updated approach that. Mann plays and provides horn arrangements on “Back Room,” “Memorex” (co-written by Lorber, Richard Elliot, Gerald Albright, and Rick Braun), “Louisiana,” “Curiosity,” “Truth,” and the reprise of “Memorex” that closes the album. As on all past Jeff Lorber Fusion releases, dating back to its 1977 self-titled debut, Step It Up effortlessly mines and merges elements from multiple genres, including jazz, funk, rock and R&B. Mintzer, known for his work with Haslip (among many others) in the Yellowjackets, can be heard on tenor sax on four Space-Time cuts: the opening title track, “Mind Reader,” “Curiosity,” and “Truth” the middle two of those also feature Ford on guitar. I was able to really focus on the record, and this album benefited positively from that.” One thing that was different, however, was the absence of live touring. “So from that standpoint it wasn’t that different from a normal record.
“Over the last number of years most of us have gotten used to tracking at home,” Lorber says.
Most of the musicians contributed their parts remotely, but Lorber and Novak were able to record together in the same studio. Although Lorber spent much of the past year’s pandemic producing other artists-including Herb Alpert, Richard Elliot, Norman Brown, and Alexander Zonjic-he also continued to write his own new material, much of which appears on Space-Time.
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