Return To Forever Archives

[Review] Chick Corea: Return To Forever (1972)

Technically the first RTF album, a fusion of Latin and jazz with plenty of melody and some guy named Stan.

Airto, Flora and the first lineup of Forever deliver a dreamy fusion album for sambanambulists.

Stan’s first is a light as a feather in his cap featuring fusion mixed with soul.

Chick’s synthetic tricks and slices of keybread pressed between meaty jams.

Stanley’s second album features funky fusion with a mini-supergroup of Jan Hammer, Tony Williams and Bill Connors.

[Kronomyth 15.0] Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, At Last I’ve Found You.

Who knew that Lenny White was a science-fiction freak? Add some funk, and you’ve got one of the best solo RTF albums.

[Kronomyth 3.0] Chick Beck in Forty Minutes.

Let me share with you my secret paramour in the field of fusion: Romantic Warrior. Loosely based on a medieval theme, this is…

You may never return to forever after you start listening to Al’s solo albums–they’re that good.

This is moran line with the Corea albums around it (Secret Agent, Mad Hatter) than Di Meola-era RTF.

An album that captures all of Salvador Dali’s humidity and little of its fantastic surrealism. The comparison is invited through a short story…

[Kronomyth 8.0] V.S.O.P.P.

Return to Forever and a return to the past, as Lenny White and famous friends revisit the classic sound of Blue Note.