![]() ![]() And then there’s a small contingent of ace musicians making guest appearances, and Dave Mann’s snappy horn arrangements should not be discounted, either. Along with Lorber and Haslip, saxophonist Andy Snitzer is the other official member of JLF as before and go-to drummer Gary Novak all but is. Perhaps not surprisingly, Impact picks up right where Prototype left off, including carrying over a murderer’s row of session aces. ![]() But finally bringing home a trophy only motivated him to accelerate his already-brisk album-every-other-year pace with his favorite collaborator of late, bass wunderkind Jimmy Haslip. Truth is, Lorber has earned such awards some forty years ago when the tight, uber-funky jazz grooves he made back then later provided endless fodder for hip-hop sampling. Since their last go around Prototype, Jeff Lorber earned his first Grammy - for that album - in the ‘Best Contemporary Instrumental’ category, which is his first win in eight nominations. The Jeff Lorber Fusion, a musical entity so synonymous with fusion jazz that its name is redundant, continues its renaissance with Impact, out earlier this month. ![]()
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