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Jeff Lorber - Chuck Loeb - Everette Harp

Jazz Funk Soul

Artist:  Jeff Lorber - Chuck Loeb - Everette Harp - Jazz Funk Soul
Etichetta: Shanachie ‎– 5417
Formato: CD, Album
Paese: US
Uscita: 2014
Genere: Jazz, Funk / Soul
Stile: Funk, Smooth Jazz, Soul

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1 Speed of Light Jeff Lorber Jazz Funk Soul 4:31

2 Swingette  Chuck Loeb  Jazz Funk Soul 5:09

3 Adrenaline Jeff Lorber Jazz Funk Soul 4:28

4 Silent Partner Everette Harp / Chuck Loeb Jazz Funk Soul 6:24

5 Telephone  Everette Harp / Jeff Lorber  Jazz Funk Soul 4:25

6 We Were There  Everette Harp  Jazz Funk Soul 5:48

7 Line Drive  Chuck Loeb  Jazz Funk Soul   4:27

8 Serious Business  Chuck Loeb / Jeff Lorber  Jazz Funk Soul 4:33

9 D.C.  Jeff Lorber  Jazz Funk Soul 4:15

10 Raccoon  Chuck Loeb / Jeff Lorber  Jazz Funk Soul 4:58

Chuck Loeb Bass, Composer, Guitar, Keyboards, Producer, Soloist
Jeff Lorber Composer, Fender Rhodes, Guitar (Rhythm), Keyboards, Mixing, Piano, Producer, Synthesizer Bass
Everette Harp Composer, EWI, Keyboards, Producer, Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Saxophone, Synthesizer Bass
Till Brönner Trumpet
Lenny Castro Congas, Percussion
Lionel Cordew Drums
Brian Dunne Drums
James Genus Bass, Bass (Acoustic)
Jimmy Haslip Associate Producer, Bass
Mark Hollingsworth Flute
Gary Novak Drums

Chuck Loeb

Jeff Lorber
Jeff Lorber (born November 4, 1952) is an American keyboardist, composer, and record producer.
Many of his songs have been featured on The Weather Channel's Local On The 8s segments, including appearances on the channel's compilation albums, The Weather Channel Presents: The Best of Smooth Jazz and The Weather Channel Presents: Smooth Jazz II. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for his 2007 Blue Note Records release He Had a Hat.
Early life
Lorber was born to a Jewish family in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, the same suburb as fellow musicians Michael and Randy Brecker, with whom he would later play. He started to play the piano when he was four years old and after playing in a number of R&B bands as a teen, went on to attend Berklee College of Music, where he developed his love for jazz and he met and played alongside guitarist John Scofield. He moved to Vancouver, Washington in 1972. He also studied chemistry at Boston University for several years.
The Jeff Lorber Fusion (1977-1981)
His first group, The Jeff Lorber Fusion, released their self-titled debut album in 1977 on Inner City Records. Supported by a revolving cast of musicians including longtime drummer Dennis Bradford, Lorber recorded five studio albums under this moniker. These early releases showcased a funky sound influenced by other jazz fusion practitioners such as Herbie Hancock, Weather Report and Return to Forever, the latter's Chick Corea appearing on several Fusion cuts. Like his contemporaries, Lorber performed on multiple keyboard instruments including piano, Rhodes piano, and various analog synthesizers, often favoring the Minimoog and Sequential Circuits Prophet 5.
"Rain Dance", found on the 1979 album Water Sign, was sampled for the 1996 Lil' Kim single "Crush On You". It was also sampled for the track "Love Like This" (featuring Lil' Cease) on SWV's 1997 album, Release Some Tension.
The Jeff Lorber Fusion's 1980 album, Wizard Island, introduced a young saxophonist, Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, better known as Kenny G.
Solo career (1982-present)
In 1982, Lorber recorded his first solo album It's a Fact, which explored Lorber's R&B roots with a smoother, more synth-heavy sound. The album featured a new backing band as well as contributions from former Fusion bandmate Kenny G and Paulinho Da Costa. It's A Fact also contained several songs with vocalists, a stark contrast to the instrumental recordings of the Fusion.
1984 was a prolific year for Lorber, who followed up his solo debut with In the Heat of the Night and Lift Off. Later that year, Lorber teamed up with the production duo David Frank and Mic Murphy, otherwise known as The System, to produce his most successful effort to date, Step By Step. The title track, written with Anita Pointer of The Pointer Sisters, rose to number 31 on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart. The song "Facts Of Love" (featuring Karyn White) from the 1986 album Private Passion was his biggest chart hit, reaching #27 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #17 on the R&B chart. Several singles from this period also appeared on the Billboard Dance charts. However, Lorber was not satisfied that he was being overtaken by a more vocal and R & B feel on his own albums so he took a seven-year-long hiatus. After Step by Step, he quoted Clive Davis as telling him, "We really want you to put more vocals on your records", which Lorber thought as a mistake.
Lorber's keyboard work was featured in the PlayStation video game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. His input can be heard during the game's closing theme song "I Am the Wind" (which also featured the saxophonist Gerald Albright).
His subsequent albums continued to evolve in a smooth jazz direction. Two greatest hits compilation albums, The Definitive Collection and The Very Best of Jeff Lorber, were released in 2000 and 2002 respectively. To date, he has recorded a dozen solo albums, including 2005's Flipside which was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Pop Instrumental Album category. At the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, his 2013 album Hacienda was nominated Best Pop Instrumental Album.
Lorber has done extensive production and session work for other artists including Dave Koz, Eric Benet, Herb Alpert and Laura Branigan. In addition to his recording and performing, Lorber also hosts his own show on Sirius Satellite Radio.
Personal life
In 2004, Lorber was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease and received a successful kidney transplant from his wife, Mink. He has served as a spokesman for the PKD Foundation, an organization for fighting polycystic kidney disease. He has mentioned that the disease is common in his family, that not only do his daughters, Nica and Jessica, have it but his mother and sister died from it.
Chuck Loeb
More than just a jazz guitar player, Chuck Loeb is the consummate musician. In a career that spans four decades, he has proven himself to be a versatile composer, arranger and producer in a wide range of musical styles and contexts. In addition to crafting a fine discography of his own and producing albums for a number of other high-profile artists, his resume also includes music for commercial jingles and a variety of television programs and motion pictures. Whatever your personal tastes in music, media, entertainment or popular culture, chances are good that you’ve had at least a passing acquaintance with the work of Chuck Loeb.
Loeb grew up in Nyack, NY, a suburb of New York City and the perfect environment for a young person with an interest in music. The area was home to many artists who worked in the city, as well as a center for many arts, music and performance education programs. It was there, at the young age of 11, that Loeb decided to make music his life’s work. Self taught for several years, he began working with local bands in the area when he was 13, playing dances at the local youth center and eventually throughout the metropolitan area.
This early teenage period marked Loeb’s first exposure to jazz, and he decided that in order to reach the level of technical skill he’d been striving for, he would need to study music formally. Along with local teachers Richie Hart and Hy White, he traveled as far as Philadelphia to study with jazz guru Dennis Sandole, who eventually recommended that he study with the great jazz guitarist Jim Hall in New York City.
After studying with Hall for the last two years of high school, he enrolled at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Two years of intense study at Berklee greatly strengthened his musicianship – not only as a guitarist but as a composer and arranger as well – but the lure of professional work led to his departure from Berklee in 1976. That same year, he left the suburbs and moved to New York City.
Throughout his early years in the Big Apple, Loeb began making a name for himself as a sideman with jazz luminaries such as drummer Chico Hamilton, Latin percussionist and bandleader Ray Barreto, flutist Hubert Laws and various others. He also continued his musical studies with a vengeance, often practicing up to eight hours a day.
In 1979, jazz luminary Stan Getz invited Loeb to join his band. The gig proved to be a pivotal experience for him, both musically and personally. As a member of Getz’s group, and the composer of much of the band’s repertoire, he had the chance to tour the globe and perform at many of the world’s major festivals, jazz clubs and concert halls. Eventually, Loeb became the musical director of the group with his compositions comprising a large portion of the nightly repertoire. It was also during this time that he met and married Carmen Cuesta, a vocalist and songwriter from Madrid, Spain. In the years since, Loeb has produced a number of Carmen’s solo recordings, and the two have collaborated on various musical projects.
After leaving the Getz ensemble, Loeb resettled in New York and began to pursue a career as a studio musician. He logged thousands of studio hours recording, composing and producing albums, soundtracks, television show themes and jingles. It was here that he developed his talents as a producer, which would become a major focus of his career in later years.
In 1985, Loeb joined the group Steps Ahead with Michael Brecker, Michael Mainieri, Peter Erskine and Victor Bailey. Returning to the festivals and stages of the jazz world rekindled his desire to focus on his own music. In 1988, after nearly ten years of intense studio work, he made the decision to develop his own recording career. His first offering as a solo artist was My Shining Hour, released on Jazz City, a Japanese label. A year later, he released Magic Fingers on DMP, an audiophile label that was one of the first in the world to release recordings on compact disc.
After four more releases on DMP, Loeb left to sign with the jazz and world music label Shanachie, where he released The Music Inside in 1996 (the album’s title song held the number 1 position on the contemporary jazz charts for six weeks).
Concurrent with his solo career, Loeb also recorded with Metro, a four-piece contemporary jazz combo that included keyboardist Mitch Forman, drummer Wolfgang Haffner and a succession of bassists: Anthony Jackson, Victor Bailey and Mel Brown. Metro cut four albums on the Lipstick and Hip Bop labels between 1994 and 2002. In addition, Loeb played with the Fantasy Band with bassist John Lee, drummer Lionel Cordew and several session players. The Fantasy Band recorded three albums on DMP and Shanachie between 1993 and 1997.
After nine years and seven solo albums, Loeb left Shanachie and joined Heads Up in late 2006. Presence, his Heads Up debut, is scheduled for worldwide release on January 24, 2007. The new album celebrates the importance of the human element in the creative process. “Nowadays, there’s a lot of music that gets created in a laboratory,” says Loeb. “We all have computers, and we do things long distance. But it never ceases to amaze me how, as soon as you put the live musicians into the equation, it’s their presence that brings the thing to life. That’s the idea behind the album title – the effect that an individual’s personality has on the music, both in the context of a recording and in a live setting.”
Everette Harp
Everette Harp (born August 17, 1961, in Houston, Texas) is an American blues, jazz and gospel saxophonist who has recorded on Blue Note and Capitol Records. Harp's 2006 album, In the Moment, debuted in the number one position of Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Chart.[
Everette Harp started playing piano at two, and began practicing saxophone at the age of four. The youngest of the eight children of a minister, and piano/organist mother gospel music was one of Harp's earliest influences. Harp started playing jazz in high school (High School for Performing and Visual Arts, Houston), and attended North Texas State University as a music major in the early 1980s. While there he joined Phi Beta Sigma. Working as an accountant for a short time, Harp played in local Houston bands, most notably a local jazz/funk group called The Franchise, which released its own album locally, which included the first recording of Harp's "There's Still Hope" in 1987. Harp moved to Los Angeles in 1988. He immediately toured briefly with Teena Marie, and then internationally with songstress Anita Baker. A position he was asked to play by pianist\producer legend George Duke. In 1990 George Duke signed Harp to a production deal, through Capitol Records, to record with a little known group he had constructed named 101 North. George Duke's hopes that Everette would get a solo deal with Bluenote Records would almost immediately be realized when then president of Bluenote Records, Bruce Lundvall, chose to sign Everette to his first solo deal before the 101 North. record was released. In 1992 Bluenote Records released Harp's eponymous solo debut, produced by George Duke, to great success.

Soon after, Harp appeared at the Montreux Jazz Festival as a featured guest artist presented by George Duke, and began weekly appearances on The Arsenio Hall Show. Harp appeared on the John Tesh produced "Sax By The Fire", which led to his appearing on the theme song for the Entertainment Tonight show, which was also produced by John Tesh. This same year George Duke featured Harp in the recording of the new theme for the weekly Soul Train television show. For a period of 10 yrs. Harp could be heard nightly on the Entertainment Tonight theme, and weekly on the Soul Train theme, making Harp one of the more pervasive saxophonist seen, and heard on television at the time. Harp also had the distinct pleasure of sharing the stage with newly inaugurated President Bill Clinton at the Arkansas Ball in 1992. An event which was ubiquitous on television and in the press. All of these accolades, along with the success of Harp's debut solo recording, the Arsenio Hall Show, performances with Anita Baker, his signature pony-tail and muscular physic, Harp quickly became an easily recognizable figure. Harp goes a long way in acknowledging his good friend, mentor, and idol George Duke as the impetus for so many opportunities afforded him. Something Harp would proclaim even after the untimely passing of George Duke in 2013. The relationship between Harp and Duke was so tightly intertwined that from the period of 1990-2013 neither Harp, nor Duke, would record a solo record without the others presence on it.
He continued to play and tour with musicians including Chaka Khan, George Duke, Chante Moore, Anita Baker, John Tesh, Kenny Loggins, Brenda Russell, Marcus Miller, Dianne Reeves, Joe Sample, Wayne Henderson, Bobby Lyle. He continued his television and studio recording obligations, and his solo recording career.[4] During the 1990s Harp became a staple in the LA TV and recording studio scene showing up on many recordings, and fastly becoming a favorite of such famed producers as Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, Peter Wolf, Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Peter Asher, and Barry Eastmond among others. A few of the artist Harp has recorded for includes: George Duke, Aretha Franklin, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, Rachelle Farrell, Chante Moore, Kenny Loggins, Stanley Clarke, Al Jarreau, Dionne Warwick, The Pointer Sisters, Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, Chaka Khan, Deniece Williams, Go West, Patti Labelle, Luther Vandross, Regina Belle, The Jazz Crusaders, Phil Perry, Natalie Cole, Bobby Lyle, international recording artist Eros Ramazzotti, and Peter Maffay to name a few. Harp also frequented several television talk shows during this time including, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, a regular on The Arsenio Hall Show, The Stephanie Miller Show, The Donny and Marie Show, The Tavis Smiley Show, Soul Train Awards and Christmas Specials, and appeared on morning shows nationwide. In later years Harp reduced his side gigs to focus on his solo career. Harp has also performed at the Omaha Blues, Jazz, & Gospel Festival held annually in North Omaha, Nebraska in August. He also performed on "Soul Train '93" (Know You Like to Dance)" with the rap group Naughty by Nature in 1993.
Harp has been featured recently with internationally renowned Italian recording pop star Eros Ramazzotti on his 2009 and 2013 world tours, as well as DVD recordings. He has also recorded and toured with renowned German recording pop rock artist Peter Maffay in 2014 to present.
Harp's most recent jazz recording is the "Jazz Funk Soul" cd on the Shanachie label released in July 2014. This recording is a collaboration with renowned jazz legends guitarist Chuck Loeb (Jazz), and keyboardist Jeff Lorber (Funk) with whom Harp (Soul) had been touring with in 2014 as a package. The subsequent recording resulted in the first Grammy nomination for Harp, and nominations for Loeb and Lorber who have received nominations in prior years.

Jeff Lorber

Three of contemporary jazz’s most popular artists-keyboardist Jeff Lorber, guitarist Chuck Loeb and saxophonist Everette Harp-offer a fresh take on fusion on Jazz Funk Soul, an album that grew out of a successful tour. The title is certainly truth in advertising: The set delivers a hefty, and very tasty, helping of jazz, funk and soul tunes that spotlight the three artists’ distinctive sounds as well as their ability to blend their styles seamlessly.

All three leaders have lengthy résumés as in-demand collaborators, and that experience serves them well here. They composed or co-composed all of the tracks, and they demonstrate an easy camaraderie as they share melodies and trade off solos.

The trio romps through the percolating Lorber composition “Adrenaline,” apparently named for the tune’s high energy and rapid tempo, and they jam their way with spirit through the soul-jazzy Loeb-Lorber cut “Serious Business.” Loeb takes the lead on his gently swinging “Swingette,” and the trio waxes lyrical on the pensive ballad “Silent Partner,” composed by Loeb and Harp. The stately Harp composition “We Were There” finds the saxophonist joined by trumpeter Till Brönner and flutist Mark Hollingsworth, and the trio wraps up the album with the funky Loeb-Lorber tune “Raccoon.”

Jazz Funk Soul is a solid, amply enjoyable album, and Lorber, Loeb and Harp demonstrate real chemistry. All three maintain busy schedules, but perhaps they will find time in the future to revisit this winning collaboration.

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