Water Sign (Jeff Lorber album)

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Water Sign
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Studio album by
The Jeff Lorber Fusion
Released1979
Recorded1979
Studio Devonshire Sound Studios (North Hollywood, CA); Ripcord Studios (Vancouver, WA)
Genre Jazz fusion
Smooth jazz
Funk
Label Arista
Producer Jeff Lorber
Marlon McClain
The Jeff Lorber Fusion chronology
Soft Space
(1978)		Water Sign
(1979)		 Wizard Island
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Water Sign is the third album by keyboardist Jeff Lorber as leader of his band "The Jeff Lorber Fusion". Released in 1979, this was Lorber's first album on Arista Records.

Contents

The backing track for the song "Rain Dance" has been sampled most notably for the 1997 Lil' Kim song "Crush on You", but also for the 1996 Tha Dogg Pound holiday song "I Wish," the 1997 SWV song "Love Like This", the 2013 Ariana Grande song "Right There" and the 2018 Mariah Carey song "A No No", from Caution . Lorber re-recorded the song, this time with vocals by Irene Bauza, as the song "Rain Dance/Wanna Fly" on his 2010 album Now Is the Time .

The song Toad's Place was written during a sound check at the nightclub Toad's Place and performed that night. [3] It has been featured on The Weather Channel's Local On The 8s segments.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jeff Lorber.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Toad's Place"5:35
2."Country"5:41
3."Tune 88"4:28
4."Sparkle"4:26
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Water Sign"5:21
2."Rain Dance"4:40
3."Right Here"5:23
4."Lights Out"6:41

Personnel

The Jeff Lorber Fusion

Guest Musicians

Production

Charts

Chart (1979)Peak
position
Billboard Top LPs & Tapes [4] 119
Billboard Top Jazz Albums [4] 4

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References

  1. ↑ Henderson, Alex. Water Sign at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-09-07.
  2. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 128. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  3. ↑ Verel, Patrick, "For a Hopping Club, The Beat Goes Onward", New York Times, November 19, 2006
  4. 1 2 "Jeff Lorber US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-09-07.
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