Return to Forever: Returns::Live at Montreux 2008

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catalog# EVBRD 33334-9

Artist: Various - Return to Forever
Title: Returns::Live At Montreux 2008
Format: Blu-ray DTS HD
DiscSet: 1
Genre: Jazz
Condition: New
Label: Eagle Rock Entertainment

Return to Forever: Returns::Live at Montreux 2008

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Review By Brandon A. DuHamel

This release captures Return to Forever on one night at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2008 during that historic tour. For anyone unfamiliar with this group of Jazz musicians, let me run down the list of names: Stanley Clarke, bass; Chick Corea, keyboards; Al Di Meola, guitar; and Lenny White, drums. If you still do not know who they are, then you are probably just not that into Jazz.

Seen as one of the central figures of Jazz-Rock fusion music along with Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra in the 1970's, Return to Forever was founded by keyboardist Chick Corea after leaving Miles Davis' ensemble for the iconic Jazz musician's avante garde In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew albums. With bassist Stanley Clarke being one of the only players who would remain throughout Return to Forever's constantly fluctuating lineup, the influential group would see many figures from the Jazz landscape pass through on their way to personal fame, such as Al Di Meola who appears in this concert performance.

The 2008 tour, bringing together the band's most long lasting, and, arguably, one of its greatest lineups, proves to anyone listening and viewing that these are highly skilled musicians. The set focuses on numbers from the ensemble's Jazz-Rock period, with tracks from Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy and Romantic Warrior being the central highlights, but the strongest moments are still the more acoustically driven, traditional sounding numbers, such as "No Mystery," "Chick's Solo," in which Corea plays an intricate piano solo that also involves striking the strings with a mallet, and "Romantic Warrior," anchored by Al Di Meola's acoustic nylon string.

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