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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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