An OG Crossover Master
number of times over the last 50+ years, an artist has come along who absorbed the vocabulary and energy of the music around them, and brought it greater commercial success as instrumental music. I am thinking of artists like Horace Silver, Ramsey Lewis, and Booker T. and the MG’s. To that list I add Jeff Lorber. Jeff took the energy and rhythmic foundation of funk, adding to it his formidable jazz chops, and wrote highly melodic tunes to feature it all. While
