#MIKE STERN AND JEFF LORBER FUSION CODE#
More US dates then follow, ending at Iridium in New York on 16-19 December. They start a European tour in Madrid on 13 November, with shows in Vienna, Paris, London and many other cities in a schedule that ends on 29 November.
They’ll be at Blues Alley in Washington for a four-night run from 26 September. Stern and the Jeff Lorber Fusion will tour, with Haslip and drumming colossus Dennis Chambers, starting in the US in late autumn. That Philly soul thing is definitely in some of his tunes on this record.” And I feel like his music really comes more from soul music than smooth jazz. “He’s got an especially beautiful touch on the acoustic piano, and I know that he studied with Madame Charloff, an amazingly great teacher in Boston. Jeff’s got a strong rhythmic groove and he comps and plays beautifully on acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, and organ. Stern says of Lorber: “When the idea was floated for this project, I asked a bunch of cats who worked with Jeff, like Randy Brecker, Dave Weckl and Bob Franceschini, and they all said, ‘He’s cool, he throws down, he can really get it going.’ And they’re right. And I think we really hit it off musically as well as personally.” So when I heard he was up for it, I was delighted to have a chance to work with him in the studio on this project. He’s on both sides of the musical spectrum. “And by the same token, he’s got the rock and blues thing covered too. He’s just a bebop wizard, he’s got an incredible jazz feeling. He’s a lot jazzier in terms of his phrasing. And I liked the idea that it would take me away from what some people call ‘smooth jazz,’ which is a moniker that I don’t really love. Observes Lorber: “I was definitely very enthusiastic about it because I knew it would be something different and challenging.
“As far as my conception for this collaboration, I thought working together would create something new and different, which was compelling to me.” “Jeff and Mike both admired each other’s musicianship and talent,” notes Haslip. Haslip had played on no fewer than six of Lorber’s albums, starting with Now Is The Time in 2010 and extending to 2018’s Impact. The pair were brought together by bassist, producer and Yellowjackets co-founder Jimmy Haslip, who had recruited Stern for the band’s 2008 album Lifecycle, and the extensive tour that followed. We were just in different orbits, me and Jeff.” “Jeff Lorber Fusion and Miles Davis were playing some of the same festivals back then, so I got to hear him play.” Adds Stern: “To be honest, I was aware of him, and had heard a bunch of good things, but I had never really checked him out. “I’ve been a fan of his for a long time,” he says. Lorber’s admiration for Stern goes back to the guitarist’s time with Miles Davis in the early 1980s.
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