Corea, Clarke & White - Forever (2 CD Live, 2011) [FLAC]

 

 

Forever is a double CD album of live acoustic recordings recorded in California, Tokyo and Seattle in 2009 by Return to Forever pianist Chick Corea, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White and studio rehearsals with guests Jean-Luc Ponty, Bill Connors and Chaka Kahn which was released on the Concord label I 2011.

• Chick Corea — piano (Disc One and Disc Two, tracks 3-7 & 10), keyboards (Disc Two, tracks 1, 2, 8 & 9)
• Stanley Clarke - bass (Disc One and Disc Two, tracks 1, 4-7 & 10), electric bass (Disc Two, tracks 2, 8 & 9)
• Lenny White - drums (Disc One and Disc Two, tracks 1-3 & 5-10)
• Bill Connors - guitar (Disc Two, tracks 2 & 7-9)
• Jean-Luc Ponty - violin (Disc Two, tracks 4-5 & 7-9)
• Chaka Khan - vocals (Disc Two, tracks 6-7)

 

All compositions by Chick Corea except as indicated

Disc One:

1. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) - 8:41
2. "Waltz for Debby" (Bill Evans) - 9:55
3. "Bud Powell" - 7:10
4. "La Canción de Sofia" (Stanley Clarke) - 7:38
5. "Windows" - 8:54
6. "Hackensack" (Thelonious Monk) - 7:30
7. "No Mystery" - 10:55
8. "Señor Mouse" - 12:06

Recorded at Yoshi's, Oakland, CA on September 16 & 17, 2009 (tracks 1-4, 7 & 8), at The Blue Note Tokyo, Japan on November 28, 2009 (track 5) and at Jazz Alley, Seattle, Washington DC on December 12, 2009 (track 6)

Disc Two:

1. "Captain Marvel" - 4:13
2. "Señor Mouse" - 10:06
3. "Crescent" (John Coltrane) - 1:45
4. "Armando's Rhumba" - 5:12
5. "Renaissance" (Jean-Luc Ponty) - 6:29
6. "High Wire: The Aerialist" - 3:41
7. "I Loves You, Porgy" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:13
8. "After the Cosmic Rain" (Clarke) - 10:38
9. "Space Circus" - 6:06
10. "500 Miles High" - 12:45

Recorded at Mad Hatter Studios, Los Angeles, CA on September 1, 2009 (tracks 1-9) and at the Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, CA on September 30, 2009 (track 10).