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)

 

Chick Corea, Miroslav Vitous, Roy Haynes - Trio Music, Live In Europe (1986/FLAC)

 

• Bass - Miroslav Vitous
• Drums - Roy Haynes
• Piano - Chick Corea

Recorded September 1984 in Willisau and Reutlingen

A1 - The Loop 6:29  Written-By - Corea

A2 - I Hear A Rhapsody 6:40 Written-By - Gasparre, Fragos, Baker

A3 - Summer Night / Night And Day 14:23 Written-by  Porter / Dubin, Warren

Side 2

B1 - Prelude No. 2 / Mock Up 12:19 Written-by (Mock Up) - Corea / (Prelude No. 2) - Scriabin

B2 - Hittin' It 5:19 Written-By - Haynes

B3 - Mirovisions 11:30 Written-By - Vitous

Return To Forever - Live At Yomiuri Land Open Theatre, 1983 (2022) [FLAC]

 Live At Yomiuri Land Open Theatre, Japan 1983

•     Chick Corea     fender rhodes, piano, synthesizer, composer
•     Stanley Clarke  electric bass, composer
•     Al Di Meola     guitar
•     Lenny White     drums

1.  Overture 6:59
2.  No Mysyery 10:53
3.  Romantic Warrior 22:13
4.  Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant 10:13
5.  Vulcan Worlds 4:44
6.  Song to the Pharoah Kings 24:24 

Miles Davis - The Lost Quintet [2019]

 

Miles and his Quintet were on their 1969 European tour, promoting the ‘Bitches Brew’ album.

Recorded on 11th May 1969 in Rotterdam, the recordings were lost for years and now available remastered as a CD.

• Bass – Dave Holland
• Drums, Marimba – Jack DeJohnette
• Electric Piano – Chick Corea
• Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Wayne Shorter
• Trumpet – Miles Davis

01. Directions
02. Bitches Brew
03. Sanctuary
04. Mastuero

Verve Jazz Masters series Vol. 1-10

 

Jazz Masters is a series of mainly single artist compilations released by Polygram/Verve between 1994 and 1996. The compilations collect material that was originally released on Verve or on one of the labels that became part of the Polygram group. The 20th and 60th releases in the series were various artist collections.

VJM 1 - Louis Armstrong

VJM 2 - Count Basie

VJM 3 - Chick Corea

VJM 4 - Duke Ellington

VJM 5 - Bill Evans

VJM 6 - Ella Fitzgerald

VJM 7 - Erroll Garner

VJM 8 - Stan Getz

VJM 9 - Astrud Gilberto

VJM 10 - Dizzy Gillespie

Miles Davis - The Lost Concert (2021/FLAC)

 

The stunning double album ‘The Lost Concert’ from Miles Davis is released for the first time on 28 September 2021, the thirtieth anniversary of his death, on 2CD and digital through Sleepy Night Records. This completes the trilogy from company that brought you the Number One jazz album ‘The Lost Quintet’ followed by ‘The Lost Septet’. This stunning show was captured at La Grande Halle, La Villette, Paris, France on 10 July 1991.

Miles Davis was renowned for never revisiting the past, even though many fans, critics and concert promoters always hoped that he would. Then, in July 1991, Miles Davis did return to the past, not once, but twice. The first was two days earlier, when he had played the classic arrangements of Gil Evans from the 1950s and 1960 at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Then, Miles arrived at Paris to play this special gig. It was simply advertised as “Miles and Friends” and neither the audience, nor Miles’ band, had any idea on what they were about to witness.

Playing with Miles was an amazing roll-call of past musical associates from the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s: Chick Corea, Bill Evans, Al Foster, Steve Grossman, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Darryl Jones, John McLaughlin, Jackie McLean, John Scofield and Joe Zawinul. Miles’ band members were Kenny Garrett, Foley, Deron Johnson, Richard Patterson and Ricky Wellman.

Miles Davis - Live-Evil [2 CD, 1971/FLAC]

Live-Evil is one of Miles Davis' most confusing and illuminating documents. As a double album, it features very different settings of his band -- and indeed two very different bands. The double-LP CD package is an amalgam of a December 19, 1970, gig at the Cellar Door, which featured a band comprised of Miles, bassist Michael Henderson, drummer Jack DeJohnette, guitarist John McLaughlin, saxophonist Gary Bartz, Keith Jarrett on organ, and percussionist Airto. These tunes show a septet that grooved hard and fast, touching on the great funkiness that would come on later.

Chick Corea - Music Forever & Beyond: Selected Works 1964-1996 (5 CD, 1996/FLAC)

 This very attractive five-CD set does an excellent job of summing up the rather productive career of pianist-keyboardist Chick Corea. The first two discs have highlights from the 1964-1982 period including a few sideman appearances, a previously unissued version of "Windows" played with Stan Getz, the original version of "Spain," four pieces from the Return to Forever days, and numbers from his freelance projects of the late '70s (highlighted by the exciting "Central Park"). The third disc concentrates on Corea's GRP projects (1986-1994), particularly his Elektric and Akoustic Bands (two selections were previously unissued), while the fourth CD is quite a grab-bag that includes collaborations with Herbie Hancock (a version of "Liza" that progresses from stride to free), Gayle Moran, John McLaughlin, Paco DeLucia, Gary Burton, Bobby McFerrin, and Miles Davis (a new duet version of "I Fall in Love So Easily" from 1969). In addition, Corea is heard as an eight-year-old in 1949 on a privately recorded 78 playing a short piano solo and on a version of "'Round Midnight" with strings that was recorded for this 1996 box. In fact, the fifth disc consists exclusively of new recordings of standards (plus one original) by Corea in an acoustic quartet with tenor saxophonist Bob Berg (who has rarely sounded more exciting). This well-conceived set is highly recommended even to Chick Corea fans who might have some of his earlier records. A gem. 

Herbie Mann & Chick Corea - The Complete Latin Band Sessions (2 CD, 2007/FLAC)

 Two CD set containing the complete recordings of Herbie Mann with Chick Corea, consisting of the three complete albums Monday Night at the Village Gate, Standing Ovation at Newport and Latin Mann: Afro to Bossa to Blues (all recorded in 1965), plus all seven of the tracks from the album The Roar of the Greasepaint the Smell of the Crowd in which both musicians are present.

The Latin Jazz Band:

• Herbie Mann - Fflute
• Chick Corea - Piano
• Dave Pike - Vvibe
• Carlos “Patato” Valdes - Congas

Miles Davis - Complete On The Corner Sessions [6 CD, 2007/FLAC]

 

This 6CD box set includes more than 6 hours of music. Twelve of these are previously unissued tracks. Another five tracks are previously unissued in full. They cover sixteen sessions from On the Corner, Big Fun, and Get Up With It until Davis's mid-seventies retirement. Miles is joined in these recordings by Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Jack DeJohnette, Billy Hart, and many others.

John McLaughlin - Montreux Concerts [17 CD, 2003/FLAC]

 

This monumental compilation features all the artist's concerts at the Montreaux Jazz Festival spanning the years 1974 through 1999.


Featuring

Shakti in July 1976 & 1977 (3 discs),

John McLaughlin & The One Truth Band in July 1978,

John McLaughlin & Chick Corea in July 1981,

Mahavishnu Orchestra in July 1984 (2 discs),

John McLaughlin & Paco DeLucia in July 1987 (2 discs),

John McLaughlin & The Free Spirits in July 1993 & 1995 (3 discs),

John McLaughlin & The Heart Of Things in July 1998

John McLaughlin & Remember Shakti in July 1999.

The last disc is a bonus CD containing two tracks one featuring McLaughlin performing with Santana in July 1993 'Canto de Xango' & another with McLaughlin & Paco DeLucia in July 1996 'Frevo'.

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition [3 CD, 2010]

The 40th anniversary of the groundbreaking fusion album Bitches Brew offers an opportunity to expand upon the context of its original unveiling. The impact of this recognition can't even be mitigated by a collision of commerce and creativity that echoes some of the furor over the original 1970 release. The unreleased studio recordings (not included on the previously issued Complete Bitches Brew from 1998) are alternates take, one of which ("John McLaughlin") isn't appreciably different from the official take, while the other ("Spanish Key") moves a little too fast for its own good. Similarly, the two stereo and two mono 45 single edits, for all their brevity, do manage to capture as much of the album's haunting atmosphere as their truncated likes can hold. The August 1970 concert live recording of Davis and his band at Tanglewood, in Lenox, Massachussetts, displays the bravado the trumpeter would always bring to his rock star co-billings, on this date, Santana at the height of the original lineup's powers.

Miles Davis - On The Crest Of The Airwaves [4 CD, 2011]

  

4 x CD in book/DVD-style tall packaging.

Containing 3 rare and previously unreleased concerts from San Francisco 1970, England 1970 and Melbourne Australia 1988. These concerts highlight the genius that was Miles Davies and are also an important piece of jazz history. All discs have been digitally remastered for superior sound quality .The iconic artwork and in dept sleeve notes make this a must have release for all true jazz fans

Return to Forever discography

 Jazz keyboard player Chick Corea's Return to Forever emerged as one of the key jazz-rock fusion bands of the 1970s. Like Weather Report and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, they were formed by an alumnus of Miles Davis' late-'60s bands with the intention of furthering the jazz-rock hybrid Davis had explored on albums like Bitches Brew. At the time, this was seen as a means of creativity, a new direction for jazz, and as a way of attracting the kinds of large audiences enjoyed by rock musicians. Return to Forever started out as more of a Latin-tinged jazz ensemble, but Corea, influenced by the Mahavishnu Orchestra of John McLaughlin and some of the progressive rock bands coming out of Great Britain, notably Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, moved the group more toward rock, achieving considerable commercial success. A later re-orientation of the band gave it more of a big-band style before Corea folded the unit, retaining the Return to Forever name for occasional tours and other projects.

Chick Corea - The Musician (Live 3 CD, 2017)

 

The 3 discs cover all of Chick iconic bands, compositions and artistic partnerships all lovingly rerecorded live over the course of one month at the Blue Note in NYC.

Return To Forever - Live The Complete Concert (1977) [3 CD]

 

Return to Forever Live (and Return to Forever Live: The Complete Concert) is the final album by fusion band Return to Forever. It was recorded live at the Palladium in New York City on May 20 and 21 1977 as part of the Musicmagic tour to support the album of the same name. This was the only tour to feature the Musicmagic lineup, which included original members Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Joe Farrell, along with newly added member Gayle Moran on piano and a six-piece horn section.