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| | Artist : Return to Forever | |
| | Album : The Anthology | |
| | Label : Concord Music Source : CD | |
| | Cat. No. : CRE30847-02 Size : 228.32 MB | |
| ª Genre : Fusion StrDate: 2008-05-27 ª |
ª _ Quality : 203kbps/44.1khz/Joint Stereo RipDate: 2008-06-16 _ ª
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| | Earlier this year, jazz-rock fusion supergroup Return To Forever | |
| | announced plans for a reunion tour after something like twenty | |
| | years. They are actually playing tonight here in Seattle, and | |
| | quite frankly I'm kinda' pissed that I'm going to be missing it. | |
| | | |
| | You see, back in their day, RTF was what you would call a band of | |
| | "musician's musicians." | |
| | | |
| | Simply put, these guys were the shit. | |
| | | |
| | Keyboardist and bandleader Chick Corea ("Our fearless leader," as | |
| | bassist Stanley Clarke likes to call him) had already long since | |
| | established his own reputation as a virtuoso on the keys with his | |
| | work on seminal jazz albums like Miles Davis' groundbreaking | |
| | fusion masterpiece Bitches Brew. Guitarist Al DiMeola was | |
| | something of a prodigy at the time, though his lightning fast | |
| | runs would later influence no less an axe slinger than Jeff Beck | |
| | on albums like Blow By Blow. Drummer Lenny White's only real | |
| | rival at the time was Billy Cobham. | |
| | | |
| | And as for bassist Stanley Clarke? Well, he was simply something | |
| | else entirely ù basically reinventing the bass, and along with | |
| | Larry Graham forever popularizing the "popping" style that | |
| | remains a cornerstone of funk to this day. | |
| | | |
| | But the other thing about RTF was that this was a band that rock | |
| | audiences really got. In an era where the progressive rock of | |
| | bands like Yes and Genesis raised the standards of pure | |
| | musicianship within the game, this was a group of guys who were | |
| | really without equal. Well, with the possible exception of Joe | |
| | Zawinul's Weather Report and John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu | |
| | Orchestra anyway. | |
| | | |
| | Their run was brief, producing four great albums in the | |
| | mid-seventies: Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy, Where Have I Known You | |
| | Before, the Grammy winning No Mystery, and their commercial | |
| | breakthrough Romantic Warrior. On this just released two disc | |
| | anthology, the best of those four records are brought together | |
| | just in time for the reunion tour. | |
| | | |
| | So rather than get into a track by track breakdown here, I'm just | |
| | going to cut right to the chase. If, like me, you are in any way | |
| | dazzled by blinding displays of four great musicians playing | |
| | their asses off, then you need to get this CD. The way these four | |
| | guys gel together is simply nothing short of amazing from a | |
| | strictly musical standpoint. | |
| | | |
| | Again to cut somewhat to the chase, Corea's "light as a feather" | |
| | keyboard flourishes provide the color. DiMeola's lightning fast | |
| | guitar runs provide the flash, while Clarke's bass popping and | |
| | White's razor tight drumming anchors it all down with a rock | |
| | solid funk foundation. | |
| | | |
| | These guys were a once in a lifetime combination of some of the | |
| | greatest pure musical talent in the world. The good news is I | |
| | hear they plan on sticking around long enough to make some more | |
| | music together once the reunion tour is done. In the meantime, | |
| | this collection will do just fine. | |
| | | |
| | Review by Glen Boyd @ | |
| | http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/06/08/112456.php | |
| | | |
| | Tracklisting: | |
| | | |
| | Disc 1/2 | |
| | -------- | |
| | 01. Return to Forever - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy 3:31 | |
| | 02. Return to Forever - After the Cosmic Rain 8:29 | |
| | 03. Return to Forever - Captain Se±or Mouse 9:04 | |
| | 04. Return to Forever - Theme to the Mothership 8:50 | |
| | 05. Return to Forever - Space Circus Part I & II 5:44 | |
| | 06. Return to Forever - The Game Maker 6:50 | |
| | 07. Return to Forever - Vulcan Worlds 7:53 | |
| | 08. Return to Forever - The Shadow of Lo 7:35 | |
| | 09. Return to Forever - Beyond the Seventh Galaxy 3:16 | |
| | 10. Return to Forever - Song to the Pharaoh Kings 14:25 | |
| | -------------------------------------------------------------------| |
| | Disc 2/2 | |
| | -------- | |
| | 01. Return to Forever - Dayride 3:29 | |
| | 02. Return to Forever - Sofistifunk 3:53 | |
| | 03. Return to Forever - No Mystery 6:13 | |
| | 04. Return to Forever - Celebration Suite Part I & II 14:03 | |
| | 05. Return to Forever - Medieval Overture 5:18 | |
| | 06. Return to Forever - Sorceress 7:38 | |
| | 07. Return to Forever - The Romantic Warrior 10:53 | |
| | 08. Return to Forever - Majestic Dance 5:05 | |
| | 09. Return to Forever - The Magician 5:31 | |
| | 10. Return to Forever - Duel of the Jester & the Tyrant 11:29 | |
| | Part I & II | |
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ª _ Total: 02:29:09 _ ª
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