| Water Sign | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1979 | |||
| Recorded | 1979 | |||
| 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 | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [2] |
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.
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.
- ^ Henderson, Alex. Water Sign at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-09-07.
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 128. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ Verel, Patrick, "For a Hopping Club, The Beat Goes Onward", New York Times, November 19, 2006