Thoroughly Lorber Song Story
This song was written in early 1984. I was hugely influenced by The Jeff
Lorber Fusion, specifically the Soft Space, Wizard Island, and Galaxian albums
as I was coming up. I wanted to write a song, almost a style exercise, to see if
I could get anywhere near the chordally complex, rhythmically sophisticated,
elegantly frenetic style that is Lorber’s composition of the day. I don’t know
if I made it, only he could tell me, but I had a whale of a good time writing
it, and I’ve been admonished by sax players for the degree of difficulty. Kevin
Clark and Matt Gawlik from Bayside Horns did
a yeoman’s job navigating the melodic material (and their contribution of a
harmonic arrangement). Douglas Lichterman and Dan O’Hara of the Gulf Coast Jazz
Quartet gave me some magnificent solos.
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