Preston Frazier’s Best of 2018 list includes a broad array of sounds and genres from familiar names and legends in the making.

‘Step It Up’ is not merely a title just as ‘The Jeff Lorber Fusion’ isn’t merely a name. It’s a challenge and Lorber with Jimmy Haslip rose up to meet it.

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