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)

 

Al Di Meola, Jean-Luc Ponty, Stanley Clarke / Live At Montreux 1994 (2005) [24-48]

It was at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1994 that Al Di Meola, Jean-Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarke played as a trio for the first time. Clarke and Di Meola had been part of Return to Forever and while they were comfortable in the familiarity of knowing each other, Ponty reached in and became a perfect fit. That language of understanding is seen to advantage on this portrait.

• Al DiMeola (guitar)
• Jean-Luc Ponty (violin)
• Stanley Clarke (bass)

Guest artist: Monty Alexander (piano on "Song to John")

01 - Song To John 12:57

02 - Memory Canyon 10:13

03 - La Cancion De Sofia 13:42

04 - Summer Country Song 06:41

05 - School Days 06:43

06 - Eulogy To Oscar Romero 06:19

07 - Renaissance 09:55

08 - Chillean Pipe Song 06:31

09 - Song To John 13:31

10 - Indigo 08:04

Stanley Clarke - Original Album Classics (5 CD, 2007/FLAC)

 

CD1 - Stanley Clarke (1974)

CD2 - Journey to Love (1975)

CD3 - School Days (1976)

CD4 - Modern Man (1978)

CD5 - Clarke/Duke Project (1981)

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 

S.M.V. (Stanley, Marcus, Victor) - Thunder (2008) [FLAC]

 

SMV is a bass supergroup formed in 2008. The group's name comes from the first initials of each of its members, Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, and Victor Wooten. SMV's debut album, Thunder, was released on August 12, 2008, with a supporting world tour beginning the same month.

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.

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.