Chick Corea - Return to Forever
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Artist: Chick CoreaBrand: COREA,CHICK
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1999-11-16
Music Label: Ecm Records
Soundtracks:
- Return To Forever
- Crystal Silence
- What Game Shall We Play Today
- Sometime Ago - La Fiesta
Music reviews of Return to Forever
Music Review: Lovely
Rating: 5 Stars
My first listen of Return To Forever really soured my outtake on jazz fusion. About two months ago, I gave Romantic Warrior a listen because I saw a great bass cover online. But when giving a listen, I found the parts he made enjoyable (the bass lines) not to be the focus. Instead, this piano was so liquid and overpowering, cheesy, so damn artificial, it really hurt it. It is akin to drowning in water, and drowning in water takes away life. Thankfully, I recently gave this a listen, and jazz fusion is a lot better than I thought it would be. Though I am a newbie. Heck, this is my second jazz fusion listen.
Return to Forever take all the bliss, and beauty that PBS has (without any of the boredom) with a crisp, refreshing splash of a piano, jazzy drumming, and more. The cover seems to be quite appropriate, and there is some latin in it, painting pictures of a lot (for some reason, Mr. Roger's Neighborhood comes to mind. Hate that show). Not just fodder for comparisons from PBS, either. The bird on the cover represents something. Heck, there is a lot of serene imagery to go with the music. You don't even need to imagine that much. Right when you push play, the cloud (come to think of music, doesn't most music you listen to have some kind of cloud of) is put up, and you get right into the music.
Though there are only four tracks, they all are long, and you will easily sit through them (this one really glides). The title track is a lovely, sweeping peace with a couple of somber interludes that gracefully starts up twice effortlessly. Crystal Silence is serene jazz, with just the right touches of silence paired with crisp, crystal melodies. What Game Shall We Play Today sounds like the theme song to the best PBS show. The next one, the monster 23 minute fourth track, features skyrocketing basses that conjure up birds shooting in the sky, the gliding Sometime Ago, and La Fiesta, the climax flight of this enchanted world. Not a minute wasted.
Though I prefer to let the music consume me (not all the way, just as much as it cares to), those who want to learn to chops on music are in good hands. Chick Corea's keyboard isn't smothering, with gracious breaths of life. Husband and wife Airto Moreira and Flora Purim provide beautiful drums, percussion, and vocals. Stanley Clark rips on the bass, and Joe Farrel, that guy is good. Excellent saxophones and flutes make everything come alive. Best of all, this stuff has emotion and technical ability. So neither one is shortcomed.
Very accessible yet uncompromising jazz fusion. This album offers a bunch for all ages, and all kinds of people.
10/10
Description of Return to Forever
Limited edition Japanese pressing. ECM. 2005.The soul of fusion lies not in the barrage of note clusters played through overdriven amplifiers but in the arresting beauty of Return to Forever's lucid vision of music without boundaries. The stunningly virtuosic pianist Chick Corea had already gone through an exploration of free jazz with Circle, tutelage in the Miles Davis Academy of New Electric Music and the soul-searching of "Piano Improvisations" when he arrived at his most brilliant conception. Corea and bassist Stanley Clarke fly through the proceedings, supporting Joe Farrell's flute and soprano sax playing in what may have been the performance of his life. Flora Purim's vocals and Airto Moreira's drums and percussion work discretely in service of the music's serenity. --John Swenson
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