Return to Forever, the jazz supergroup featuring Chick Corea (keys), Stanley Clarke (bass), Al Di Meola (guitar) and Lenny White (drums) announced that they have reformed after 25 years and will tour extensively through the US and Europe this Spring-Summer. The jazz icons will be playing popular songs from their back catalog of chart-topping albums. According to the band's website:"What made ...
Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Al Di Meola and Lenny White Planning Extensive North American and European Tour Tour Sure to Be "THE Jazz Event of 2008" (Beyond Jazz)Return to Forever, one of the most influential groups of the 1970s, have long heard calls from their many fans for a reunion tour. Now those calls have been answered, with the classic lineup of keyboardist Chick Corea, bassist Stanle...
Another long lost friend rediscovered. This is the original RTF lineup, without Al DiMeola or Lenny White. DiMeola, then 19 years old, first appeared on Where Have I Known You Before (see below); and Airto Moreira played drums and percussion here instead of White. This crew didn't play with the same edge as the later quartet, perhaps because of the presence of Joe Farrell (whose flute solo here...
This was how my cousin introduced me to Return to Forever. I really wasn't ready for it. Somehow, I lost this album in my stacks and retrieved just now; listening to it for the first time in about six years, I really wasn't ready for it tonight.The RTF lineup is legendary: Chick Corea on keyboards; Al DiMeola on guitar; Lenny White on drums; and Stanley Clarke on bass. "Earth Juice" has a sound...
When I first heard this album, it really blew my mind. The funny thing is that I actually bought it for my parents. I knew they liked "jazz" so I went to the store and found a couple of albums from the jazz section that had really cool-looking album covers.Let's just say this album sat on the shelf for a few years at my house. I put it on one day and...wow! Chick Corea, Lenny White, Al Dimeola ...
While driving down to Cois Fharraige last weekend, I turned on Lyric FM and heard a rather frightening cacophonous noise of 'After the Cosmic Rain' by Return to Forever. I thought this stuff only existed in cocaine nightmares or bad films. How wrong was I?