They’re ready to hear musicians who can really play, really stretch the envelope with their technique, with their songwriting, and with harmonic structure. All of a sudden, people seem to be interested in hearing that again. “We wanted a return to the sound of the Jeff Lorber Fusion, but informed by everything I’ve learned since then. “We all had a vision of what we wanted this record to be,” says Lorber, who points to a recent European tour with many of these same musicians – and the positive response that resulted from it – as the primary catalyst for the album. This new incarnation of the Jeff Lorber Fusion includes bassist Jimmy Haslip (who co-produced with Lorber and Bobby Colomby), saxophonist Eric Marienthal, trumpeter Randy Brecker, guitarist Paul Jackson Jr., and drummers Vinnie Colaiuta and Dave Weckl. Now Is the Time is hardly the work of a jazz purist or a bop snob, but it certainly has a jazz improvisers mentality, and Lorber sees to it that his 2010 versions of Jeff Lorber Fusion gems like 'Black Ice' and 'Chinese Medicinal Herbs' are not carbon copies of the original versions. Jeff Lorber Fusion/Now Is The Time 2010 Heads Up International Produced by Jeff Lorber, Bobby Colomby and Jimmy Haslip Executive Producers: Andi Howard and Mark Wexler Engineered by Jeff Lorber at JHL Sound, Pacific Palisades CA Drums engineered by Derek Jones IreneB vocals produced and engineered by Frankie Biggz at Tempo Studios, Orlando FL Drums.
Lorber and his band, Jeff Lorber Fusion, first honed their craft in the Portland, Ore., club scene and rapidly expanded their reach to a national and international audience. The new CD will be released June 1.īy the late 1970s, Lorber had become a prominent figure in the new movement known as jazz fusion – a marriage of traditional jazz with elements of rock, R&B, funk and other electrified sounds. Smooth jazz oriented releases like West Side Stories (1994), State of Grace (1996), Midnight (1998), Kickin' It (2001), Philly Style (2003), the side project Shades Of Soul (2004), 2005's Grammy nominated Flipside and Heard That (2008) are a strong sign for these activities. The CD, Now Is the Time, is Lorber’s follow-up to 2008’s Heard That. Jeff Lorber Fusion - Now Is The Time Most of the readers will know Jeff Lorber as the exponent of smooth jazz. Keyboardist and producer Jeff Lorber has wrapped up production of a new CD that delves back into his early catalog and reinvents some of his compositions from the Jeff Lorber Fusion heyday.
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