He scored a Grammy nomination for his 1985 song "Pacific Coast Highway," an accolade that marked his rise into more commercial crossover jazz, culminating in 1986's Private Passion.
Emerging on the scene in the late '70s, Lorber quickly established himself as a leader at the forefront of the electric jazz movement, issuing albums with his group the Jeff Lorber Fusion like 1978's Soft Space (featuring Chick Corea) and 1977's Water Sign. He took it to the mainstream charts with seven Top 200 titles in addition to more than a dozen on genre-specific ones including Contemporary Jazz, Dance Albums, and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.
In addition to his recording and performing, Lorber also hosts his own show on Sirius Satellite Radio.Known for his smooth style of weaving together elements of funk, R&B, rock, and electric jazz, Grammy Award-winning keyboardist, composer, and producer Jeff Lorber helped pioneer the post-fusion sound of contemporary jazz. Lorber has done extensive production and session work for other artists including Dave Koz, Eric Benet, Herb Alpert and Laura Branigan. To date, he has recorded a dozen solo albums, his most recent being 2005's Flipside which was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Pop Instrumental Album category. Template:Citation needed Two greatest hits compilation albums, The Definitive Collection and The Very Best of Jeff Lorber, were released in 20 respectively. His subsequent albums continued to evolve in a smooth jazz direction. His input can be heard during the game's closing theme song "I Am the Wind" (which also featured the saxophonist Gerald Albright). Lorber's keyboard work was featured in the PlayStation video game, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. The title track rose to number 31 on the US Billboard R&B chart. Later that same 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. It's A Fact also contained several songs with vocalists, a stark contrast to the instrumental recordings of the Fusion.ġ984 was a prolific year for Lorber, who followed up his solo debut with In the Heat of the Night and Lift Off. The album featured a new backing band as well as contributions from former Fusion bandmate Kenny G and Paulinho Da Costa. 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 Jeff Lorber Fusion's 1980 album, Wizard Island, introduced a young saxophonist, Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, better known as Kenny G. "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. 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. 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. Supported by a revolving cast of musicians including longtime drummer Dennis Bradford, Lorber recorded five studio albums under this moniker. His first group, The Jeff Lorber Fusion, released their self-titled debut album in 1977 on Inner City Records.
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