Jeff Lorber – born November 4, 1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – is a jazz
keyboardist, bandleader, producer, songwriter, and remixer. He began playing
piano at the age of four. By the time he reached his teens, he was playing with
a number of R&B bands before switching to jazz while he was attending the
Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He formed his first band, The
Jeff Lorber Fusion and they released their debut album, The Jeff Lorber Fusion,
in 1977. The band’s early sound was a mixture of jazz and funk inspired by
artists like Weather Report, Return to Fo...