Return to Forever – Returns

Returns
Live album by Return to Forever
Released Mar 17, 2009
Recorded Jul 18, 2008-Sep 6, 2008
Genre Jazz fusion
Label Eagle
Producer Terry Shand, Claude Nobs
Return to Forever chronology
Live
(1977)		 Returns
(2009)		 Return to Forever Returns: Live at Montreux (DVD)
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
All About Jazz (favorable)[2]
Return to Forever - Returns: Live at Montreux 2008
Video by Return to Forever
Released 2009
Recorded 2008, Montreux, Clearwater, Florida
Genre Jazz
Length 149 minutes
Label Eagle Rock Entertainment

Returns is a live album by the fusion band Return to Forever. Released in 2009, it is the first recording by the band after a hiatus of 32 years. A video recording of the band's live performances from the "Returns" tour at Montreux, Switzerland and (bonus material) Clearwater, Florida was also released in 2009 by Eagle Rock Entertainment as Return to Forever - Returns: Live at Montreux 2008.

Contents

CD track listing

Disc one

  1. "Opening Prayer" (Corea) – 2:03
  2. "Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy" (Corea) – 3:43
  3. "Vulcan Worlds" (Clarke) – 13:45
  4. "Sorceress" (White) – 11:22
  5. "Song to the Pharaoh Kings" (Corea) – 27:13
  6. Al's Solo, including (Corea, DiMeola, Piazzolla) – 8:54
    • "Children's Song #3" duet with Chick Corea
    • "Passion Grace & Fire"
    • "Mediterranean Sundance"
    • "Café 1930"
    • "Spain" duet with Chick Corea
  7. "No Mystery" (Corea) – 8:52

Disc two

  1. "Friendship" Chick's Solo, including 'Sonar' (Corea, Davis) – 8:52
  2. "Romantic Warrior" (Corea) – 7:19
  3. "El Bayo de Negro" Stanley's Solo (Clarke) – 11:25
  4. "Lineage" Lenny's Solo (White) – 7:39
  5. "Romantic Warrior" (continued) (Corea) – 3:03
  6. "Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant" (Corea) – 14:03

Bonus tracks

  1. "500 Miles High" (Corea) – 12:48
  2. "BBC Lifetime Achievement Award to RTF as presented by Sir George Martin, including a performance of 'Romantic Warrior'" – 8:20

Video track listing

Main show - Montreux 2008

  1. Introduction
  2. "Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy"
  3. "Vulcan Worlds"
  4. "Sorceress"
  5. "Song To The Pharaoh Kings"
  6. Al's solo
  7. "No Mystery"
  8. "Chick's Solo
  9. "Romantic Warrior"
  10. "El Bayo de Negro" (Stanley's solo)
  11. "Lineage" (Lenny's solo)
  12. "Romantic Warrior" (conclusion)

Bonus tracks - Clearwater, FL 2008

  1. "Lineage" (Lenny's solo)
  2. Al's solo
  3. "Friendship" (Chick's solo)
  4. "El Bayo de Negro" (Stanley's solo)
  5. "Duel Of The Jester And The Tyrant"

Personnel

CD recording credits

References

  1. ^ Return to Forever – Returns at Allmusic
  2. ^ Kelman, John (2011 [last update]). "Return To Forever: Returns - Live at Montreux 2008". allaboutjazz.com. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=33131. Retrieved 20 July 2011. 

External links

Chick Corea  • Stanley Clarke  • Flora Purim  • Joe Farrell  • Airto Moreira  • Bill Connors  • Steve Gadd  • Mingo Lewis  • Earl Klugh  • Lenny White  • Al Di Meola  • Gayle Moran  • John Thomas  • James Tinsley  • Jim Pugh  • Harold Garrett  • Ron Moss  • Gerry Brown  • Frank Gambale  • Jean-Luc Ponty
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilations
The Best of Return to Forever (1980) Sony  • This is Jazz, Vol. 12 (1996) Sony  • Return to the Seventh Galaxy: The Anthology (1996) Verve  • Return to Forever: The Anthology (2008) Concord  • Return to Forever: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (2011) Sony
Videos
Return to Forever: Returns - Live at Montreux (2009)
Related
Captain Marvel (1972) Verve  • Forever (Corea, Clarke & White) (2011) Concord
Chick Corea
As Leader
Tones for Joan's Bones  • Now He Sings, Now He Sobs  • Is  • Sundance  • The Song of Singing  • The Leprechaun  • My Spanish Heart • The Mad Hatter  • Secret Agent  • Friends  • Tap Step  • Three Quartets  • Touchstone  • Again and Again  • Summer Night - live  • Chick Corea Akoustic Band  • Alive  • Time Warp  • Rendezvous in New York  • The Ultimate Adventure  • Super Trio  • Five Peace Band Live
Solo albums
Piano Improvisations Vol. 1  • Piano Improvisations Vol. 2  • Delphi I  • Delphi II & III  • Expressions  • Children's Songs  • Solo Piano - Originals  • Solo Piano - Standards
Collaborations
An Evening With Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert  • CoreaHancock  • Chick Corea & Lionel Hampton in Concert  • Voyage  • Play  • The Mozart Sessions  • The Enchantment  • Duet
with Gary Burton
with Circle
Circling In  • Circulus  • Circle 1: Live in Germany Concert  • Paris Concert  • Circle 2: Gathering
with Miles Davis
with Elektric Band
The Chick Corea Elektric Band  • Light Years  • Eye of the Beholder  • Inside Out  • Beneath the Mask  • Elektric Band II: Paint the World  • Live From Elario's (First Gig)  • To the Stars
with Joe Farrell
with Stan Getz
with Herbie Mann
Latin Mann Afro to Bossa to Blues  • Standing Ovation at Newport  • The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd  • Monday Night at the Village Gate
with Blue Mitchell
with Origin
Live at the Blue Note  • A Week at The Blue Note  • Change  • corea.concerto – Spain For Sextet & Orchestra – Piano Concerto No.1
with Return to Forever
with Others
Flute By-Laws  • Moto Grosso Feio  • Turkish Women At The Bath  • The Creeper  • Merry-Go-Round  • Going to the Rainbow  • Round Trip  • Echoes of an Era  • Big Band
Compilations
Inner Space  • The Complete "Is" Sessions  • Chick Corea/Herbie Hancock/Keith Jarret/McCoy Tyner  • Best of Chick Corea  • Very Best of Chick Corea  • Herbie Mann-Chick Corea The complete Latin band Sessions
Soundtracks
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