Flight Of The NewBorn

Return to Forever was a jazz fusion group founded and led by keyboardist Chick Corea. Through its existence, the band cycled through a number of different members, with the only consistent band mate of Corea's being bassist Stanley Clarke. Along with Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever is often cited as one of the core groups of the jazz-fusion movement of the 1970s. Several musicians, including Clarke, Flora Purim, Airto Moreira and Al Di Meola, first came to prominence through their performances on Return to Forever's albums.

After playing on Miles Davis's groundbreaking jazz-fusion albums In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew, Corea formed an avant-garde jazz band called Circle with Dave Holland, Anthony Braxton and Barry Altschul. However in 1972, after having become a disciple of Scientology, Corea decided that he wanted to better "communicate" with the audience. This essentially translated into his performing a more popularly accessible style of music, since avant-garde jazz enjoyed a relatively small audience.

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• Moreira
• Joe
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• (deceased)
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[DoctorEeam]

That's really amazing when you think about it. Al di Meola was only 19 at this time and hes playing with the likes of the rest of this band like it was a walk in the park. Make sure you listen to SOFISTIFUNK right after this..And then go play it to a friend who never heard this and then tell them what year it was made. Gets them every time..lol

[vincentostapowich]

@DoctorEeam

Jazz with electrics is often so hard to date that its almost impossible except by identifying recent advances in sound pre and post production.

Youd almost think this was done very recently,,but its a style thats never lost its allure

[MrVerncoleman]

i heard al was only 19 or 20 when this came out! thanks vincentostapowich. one of the greatest albums of al time.

[vincentostapowich]

Id say youre right.

apparently the practice sessions he had as a student were legendarily long

[HgKen74]

Definitely one of their best tracks....Lenny Williams at his best

[jamad99]

lenny at his best

[dawn3264]

As great as this track is,I don't believe they performed it live. Shame,damn shame!!!

[Farrisg287]

Yeah boy... this is da cut..

[allennine1]

@49RonGuidry You dang skippy. Honorable mention and all hail also to Chris Squire and John Entwistle.

[49RonGuidry]

@allennine1 Stanley and Jaco were the two that were the guys that broke the sound barrier with the electric bass guitar. Guys like Bootsie (no disrespect in any way) had great grooves but when you look back now he didn't change the approach to the instrument the way Stanley and Jaco did IMO

[49RonGuidry]

@allennine1 Well not Chic. He was actually into his mid 30s but he was the leader/elder statesman of the band

[jamad99]

lenny white not williams

[grevejp44]

@HgKen74 Lenny white ;)

[allennine1]

@aarfeld, that is Al Dimeola. I had that album and the quartet line up was Chic Corea-keyboards, Al Dimeola-guitars, Stanley Clarke-basses and bells, Lenny White-percussion. This line up stayed the same for at least six albums during the '70's. Also the most amazing thing was that they were all in their early twenties.