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Length:
Video 1 - 38:44, Video 2 - 44:41
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This discounted bundle includes videos 1, 2 & the PDF from Jeff Lorber's keyboard masterclass series.
Video 1: In part one (1 of 2) of this keyboard lesson, legendary keyboardist Jeff Lorber breaks down his iconic style. Jeff demonstrates and discusses jazz, blues, playing through changes, modal ideas, jazz harmony, improvisation and more. Jeff also performs his tunes "BC Bop" and "Anthem for a New America" in this masterclass. If you're looking to learn from the man himself, this keyboard lesson is for you.
Topics Covered: Improvisation, playing though changes, indirect resolutions, jazz harmony, bebop patterns, ii V’s, playing the blues, “BC Bop”, “Confirmation” changes, jazz lines, scale patterns, chromaticism, jazz blues, chord substitutions, tonic, subdominant, dominant, voicings, blues licks, altered tensions, modal playing, pentatonic ideas, superimposing chords, triadic harmony, “Anthem for a New America”, being musical, etc.
Video 2: In part two (2 of 2) of this keyboard lesson, legendary keyboardist Jeff Lorber breaks down his iconic style. Jeff demonstrates and discusses improvisation, playing through changes, voicings, using "targets", jazz harmony, R&B/Blues elements and more. Jeff also performs his tunes "Rain Dance", "He Had a Hat" and "Monsterrat" in this masterclass. If you're looking to learn from the man himself, this keyboard lesson is for you.
Topics Covered: Improvisation, voicings, tensions, playing though changes, “Rain Dance”, targeting chords, indirect resolutions, syncopation, block chords, jazz harmony, R&B, Funk, feel, bebop patterns, ii V’s, using rhythmic patterns, playing the blues, “He Had a Hat”, jazz lines, technique, chromaticism, repertoire, chord substitutions, blues licks, altered tensions, pentatonic ideas, superimposing chords, “Monsterrat”, being musical, finding your own path, etc.
PDF Info: This 20 page PDF includes the charts for Jeff’s tunes, “Rain Dance”, “BC Bop”, “Anthem for a New America”, “He Had a Hat” and “Monsterrat”. Also included are fifteen ii V I patterns, plus the blues changes and chord function diagrams (from the video). It does not include his transcribed improvisations and it is not intended to be used without the video. This is a supplemental PDF.
By the late 1970s, trailblazing keyboardist/composer/producer Jeff Lorber had become a prominent figure in the new movement known as jazz fusion – a marriage of traditional jazz with elements of rock, R&B, funk and other electrified sounds. Lorber and his band, the Jeff Lorber Fusion, first honed their craft in the Portland, Oregon, club scene and rapidly expanded their reach to a national and international audience via a combination of complex harmonies, unconventional time signatures and compelling rhythms.
In subsequent years, Lorber dropped the term “fusion” from his billing as the movement evolved into what is currently known as contemporary jazz. Still, he continued to explore the innovative, improvisational potential of grafting other musical forms to the jazz idiom.
More than three decades after his earliest recordings, Lorber has come full circle. His new recording, Hacienda, set for release August 27, 2013, on Heads Up International, a division of Concord Music Group, revisits a sound he helped pioneer. The album takes the experiment that he started with his GRAMMY®-nominated CD, Now is the Time, and his 2012 album, Galaxy, up a notch with 11 exciting and energetic new compositions performed by some of the biggest names in jazz today. Co-produced by Lorber and bassist/composer Jimmy Haslip, Hacienda also features saxophonist Eric Marienthal, a longtime collaborator with Lorber and his collective. Other guests include premier jazz-rock violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, drummers Vinnie Colaiuta and Dave Weckl, and an impressive cadre of other stellar players.
Lorber’s music reaches a new level by crystallizing jazz, funk, and Latin rhythms with some killer melodies that will certainly translate to live performance. Obviously, time spent touring together has made Lorber, Haslip and Marienthal into a tight unit, which is evident from this latest recording.
Stretching the envelope has been Lorber’s strategy from the very beginning. Born in Philadelphia in 1952, Lorber began playing piano when he was just four years old. By his teen years, he had hooked up with several local R&B bands, but his tastes trended more toward jazz when he studied at Berklee College of Music.
After college, he relocated to Portland, Oregon, where he formed the Jeff Lorber Fusion. The group released their self-titled debut album in 1977, and quickly became one of the most popular acts in the jazz fusion scene, due in large part to relentless touring and a string of artistically daring and commercially successful recordings.
The entity formerly known as the Jeff Lorber Fusion became Lorber’s solo career with the release of It’s a Fact in 1982. After a brief but prolific stretch culminating with the highly successful Private Passion in 1986, Lorber took a break from recording his own material, opting instead to do session work and produce other artists. He resumed his solo career in 1991 with Worth Waiting For, although he continued to produce for the remainder of the decade.
Lorber has been just as prolific and innovative in the new century as he was in the last, with recordings on Narada (Philly Style, Flip Side), Blue Note (He Had a Hat) and Peak (Heard That).