Music CD - Jeff Lorber: He Had a Hat

	Music CD: He Had a Hat Artist: Jeff Lorber List Price: $17.98 Our Price: $9.36 Your Save: $ 8.62 ( 48% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Blue Note
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Tracks: 1. Anthem For A New America 2. He Had A Hat 3. Grandma's Hands 4. Surreptitious 5. All Most Blues 6. Orchid 7. BC Bop 8. The Other Side Of The Heart 9. Hudson 10. Super Fusion Unit 11. Eye Tunes 12. Requiem For Gandalf 13. Burn Brightly
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0094635561128 Label: Blue Note Manufacturer: Blue Note Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Blue Note Release Date: 2007-04-03 Studio: Blue Note
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Worth having Comment: Consistently high quality Jeff Lorber (with the typical exception of the tracks with vocals, but there are only two as I remember ("Grandma's Hands", sheesh). It's a lot like his prior stuff, but higher quality recording with higher quality playing by larger groups. Lorber seems to be one of the best if not the best of his era. On the down side, the best on this album is similar to the best on his other albums, which is to say, he has a bit of a schtick going (being his unique style of up tempo jazz funk). On the other hand, when he deviates from the schtick, its typically of middling interest (I'm thinking of the first cut which is Bruce Hornsbyish, an area that Lorber investigates occasionally but never quite jells) (it doesn't jell much for Hornsby either). He also borrows compositionally from others (hey, Charlie Parker did) (one of these things appears to be a homage to Joe Sample's Snowflake, good choice). Good addition to anyone's collection of commercial jazz (think Crusaders or Ramsey Lewis). Customer Rating: Summary: Very good.......but!! Comment: I had anticipated this CD quite a lot after I'd seen it in the past....and then it won a Grammy Award.....that was it for me:ordered it up.....very good CD...with lots of creativity.....however.....two tracks on this CD defy definition.......both, the vocals....the second one is, sort of, OK....but the first !!......"Grandma's Hands"....it defies description as to WHY it was INSERTED --- into the genre of this CD !!!!....its like inserting a Donna Summer song into a Beethoven CD....completely IN ---congruous, y'all !!.....why the producers of not only this CD but a lot of others...want to spoil a pristine CD with some track that does not even come close to the ambience of the whole scene is beyond me.......to combat this, as I could not stand to listen to that track....which was like, #3 or thereabouts......I cassetted it.....and deleted both songs.....so now when I play, they are gone, baby !!....it's such a doggone shame and a wonder!! Customer Rating: Summary: ....and now I have a Hat.... Comment: Been a Lorber fan since early 80's. He's still doing his thing. This album is so beautiful on every level; he's got quite a few other musician's I love making this happen. Love the laid back, jazzy mellow feel of it. Love the way E.Benet did Grandma's Hands. There's a lot of love in the room. Thank you, Mr. Lorber. Customer Rating: Summary: Back to Jeff Lorber fusion days Comment: Listening to "He Had A Hat", took me back to the 80's in a good way. Jeff recaptured the sound from his earlier recordings by mixing in crack jazz players with his own heavy synth. or acoustic keyboard virtuosity. If I had to come up with one word to describe this recording it would be Virtuoso. Well done Mr. Lorber Customer Rating: Summary: Jeff Lorber Review Comment: I first heard 'Anthem for a New America' on our local jazz station and knew that I just HAD to have this CD. All the songs on this album are good, and I have played it many and many a time. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: The Jeff Lorber Fusion's 1970s grooves were hip enough for Nelly to sample them on his 2003 "Pimp Juice" remix. On Lorber's latest CD, the Philly-born keyboardist delivers some of his trademark funk, albeit with musical twists, and a slew of guests from saxophonists Kirk Whalum and Tom Scott, guitarist Russell Malone, and trumpeter Chris Botti to the horns from Blood, Sweat & Tears. His smooth-jazz fans will dig Lorber's lovely rendition of Bill Wither's "Grandma's Hands," graced with Eric Benet's impassioned vocal, and "The Other Side of the Heart," the quiet storm duet with Benet and Holly Cole. But, like a few of his contemporaries, Lorber unplugs and takes to the acoustic ivories on the orchestral, Aaron Copeland-esque overture "Anthem for a New America." He increases his swing cred on the Gil Evans-ghosted "Surreptitious" and "BC Bop" and proves that some smooth stars still have a little hard bop left in them. --Eugene Holley, Jr.