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They had a pretty big hit I don’t quite remember. You take something and make some little alterations, so it’s not quite the original thing. Q: How much money do Ashanti and Ja Rule owe you?Ī: My song “Rain Dance” has been sampled a bunch of times and they sort of interpolated - I think that is the word it has some to do with mathematics - it. But from a band standpoint … in my group I like to be equals and have a lot of talented people around me and then feature them. I mean it takes a certain amount of ego to put yourself out there and promote yourself, your music. Q: You never developed one of those big music egos.Ī: I guess not. He was basically telling them they should stick it out because that’s what people really liked about the group. He was interviewing U2 one time and telling them that the thing that was successful about them was that they all came from the same place, they all shared similar experiences. I was just talking to my friend Bobby Colomby, the original drummer with Blood, Sweat & Tears. Q: What breaks up groups besides drugs, alcohol and egos?Ī: That’s a question that could go on for hours. Then a couple weeks off and, ‘Now what? We’d better get some work. It was tough ’cause you’d have a few weeks where you were playing a lot, making good money, easy to pay everybody then. Actually, I did have that for a while in the early Jeff Lorber Fusion. If you are a successful band leader you can afford to put people on retainers, so they are always available. Q: What does it take to keep a group together for that long?Ī: It’s hard, I mean, it just takes like-minded people have a commitment to it. Then we had that idea, “Why don’t we just go back to Jeff Lorber Fusion? That name sounds cool again.” So we went back to that and more of a band concept, which has been me and Jimmy Haslip and we’ve worked with Eric Marienthal for about four or five years now. When we started playing in Europe, that’s when promoters wanted to promote us as the Jeff Lorber Fusion. There were almost eight years where I didn’t record at all - I was just a studio musician in L.A., an arranger - and then I got back into it. I got rid of the “Fusion” because it played out. And then the idea of fusion seemed passé so I started making Jeff Lorber records. It went through a few personnel changes but basically was a pretty solid unit of Danny Wilson on bass, Dennis Bradford on drums and Kenny Gorelick, on sax, and me. “In my group I like to be equals and have a lot of talented people around me and feature them.”Ī: Well, what happened is the Fusion was a pretty tight band that formed in the late ’70s.
