| West Side Stories | ||||
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| Released | November 8, 1994 | |||
| Recorded | 1994 | |||
| Genre | Smooth Jazz Jazz fusion | |||
| Length | 49:53 | |||
| Label | Verve Forecast | |||
| Producer | Jeff Lorber, Marlon McClain Guy Eckstine | |||
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West Side Stories is the eleventh studio album by the six-time Grammy Award-nominated, one-time Grammy winning composer, keyboardist and pioneer of the smooth jazz genre, Jeff Lorber, released on Verve Forecast in 1994.[2] After six previous nominations, Lorber won his first Grammy Award on January 28, 2018 for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for Prototype by his band The Jeff Lorber Fusion.
The collection of eleven songs written mostly by Lorber himself included several featured artists. Among them, Eric Benét, Paulinho da Costa, Paul Jackson, Jr., Michael Landau, Hubert Laws, Kongar-ol Ondar, CeCe Peniston, Kongar-ol Ondar, Paul Pesco (guitarist on the Madonna's The Virgin Tour), or Art Porter, Jr.
The album scored in the U.S. Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart at number five.[3]
- ^ West Side Stories at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
- ^ 'Jeff Lorber, Discography' Retrieved 7 November 2010
- ^ 'Jeff Lorber, West Side Stories in the Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart' Retrieved 7 November 2010