“Without Chick Corea,” he says, “I might not have a career! My first record came out on a small label called Inner City.
Meek, on soprano sax, and Laws appear on one of the album’s highlights, “Chick,” which is dedicated to the late Chick Corea, an important early figure for Lorber. Jackson’s guitars-a regular component of another Lorber-led group, Jazz Funk Soul-enliven “Back Room” and “Truth,” while Landau’s take the spotlight for “Sun Princess,” “Louisiana,” and the ballad “Day One.” Mann plays and provides horn arrangements on “Back Room,” “Memorex” (co-written by Lorber, Richard Elliot, Gerald Albright, and Rick Braun), “Louisiana,” “Curiosity,” “Truth,” and the reprise of “Memorex” that closes the album. Mintzer, known for his work with Haslip (among many others) in the Yellowjackets, can be heard on tenor sax on four Space-Time cuts: the opening title track, “Mind Reader,” “Curiosity,” and “Truth” the middle two of those also feature Ford on guitar. I was able to really focus on the record, and this album benefited positively from that.”
One thing that was different, however, was the absence of live touring. “So from that standpoint it wasn’t that different from a normal record. “Over the last number of years most of us have gotten used to tracking at home,” Lorber says. Most of the musicians contributed their parts remotely, but Lorber and Novak were able to record together in the same studio. Although Lorber spent much of the past year’s pandemic producing other artists-including Herb Alpert, Richard Elliot, Norman Brown, and Alexander Zonjic-he also continued to write his own new material, much of which appears on Space-Time.
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