Jeff Lorber - Kickin' It (2001)

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Title: Kickin' It
Year Of Release: 2001
Label: Samson Music
Genre: Smooth Jazz
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue)
Total Time: 43:33 min
Total Size: 283 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Snakebite [04:17]
02. Ain't Nobody [03:54]
03. Happy Endings [04:25]
04. Chopsticks [03:58]
05. Keep That Same Ol' Feelin' [04:33]
06. Reflections [04:40]
07. The Bijou [04:52]
08. Kickin' It [04:08]
09. The In Crowd [04:05]
10. What It Is [04:37]

Personnel:

Jeff Lorber (guitar, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, bass synthesizer, keyboard, synthesizer);
Michael Landau (guitar, electric guitar, nylon-string guitar);
Stuart Wylen, Wah-Wah Watson, Tony Maiden (guitar);
Gerald Albright, Richard Elliot, Steve Cole (tenor saxophone);
Dan Higgins (flute, saxophone);
Dave Koz (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone);
Gary Meek (saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone);
Gary Grant, Jerry Hey, Ron King (trumpet, flugelhorn);
Bill Reichenbach Jr. (trombone);
Alex Al (bass guitar);
John Roberts, Lil' John Roberts (drums);
Steve Dubin (drum programming);
Siedah Garrett (vocals);
Lenny Castro (percussion).


Jeff Lorber's label debut on Samson Records is a typical jazz fusion effort that will sound familiar to fans of his band of the 1970s and '80s, the Jeff Lorber Fusion. Teaming with co-writer/producer/arranger Steve Dubin, Lorber constructs a series of upbeat rhythm tracks over which he plays melodically on either acoustic piano or Fender Rhodes electric. He is joined on nearly every track by a guest saxophonist and/or guitarist. Tenor saxophonist Gerald Albright sits in on "Snakebite," "Keep That Same Ol' Feelin'," and "Kickin' It" (with guitarist Stuart Wylen); soprano saxophonist Dave Koz on "Happy Endings" (with guitarist Michael Landau) and "The Bijou"; tenor saxophonist Steve Cole on "Chopsticks"; soprano saxophonist Gary Meek on "Reflections" (with Wylen) and "What It Is"; and tenor saxophonist Richard Elliot on "The 'In' Crowd." Lorber cedes considerable space to his guests, but he still finds room for his own improvisations. He also brings in a horn section on several cuts, notably "Keep That Same Ol' Feelin'," which sounds enough like a lost Steely Dan track that you keep expecting Donald Fagen to start singing on instead of Siedah Garrett, who intones the repeated lines "Keep on/Keep that same ol' feelin'." "Ain't Nobody" is the 1983 Rufus and Chaka Khan hit, here rendered with an appropriately funky feel, and "The 'In' Crowd" is, of course, the 1965 Ramsey Lewis Trio hit, a nod to an obvious predecessor of Lorber's. The keyboardist slows the pace for "Reflections," but most of these tracks are lively pieces with lots of interplay that is only ended when they fade out. ~ William Ruhlmann


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Great album, thank you!