#return to forever

[cosmonautroger]

Chick Corea, Return To Forever, 1972

#Chick Corea #Return To Forever #1972

[jt1674]

#lenny white #chick corea #al di meola #stanley clarke #return to forever #no mystery #jungle waterfall

[dustedmagazine]

Airto Moreira & Flora Purim— Airto & Flora - A Celebration: 60 Years - Sounds, Dreams & Other Stories (BBE)

This massive compilation tracks the intertwined careers of two pivotal figures in fusion jazz, offering three hours of music from pioneers Airto Moreira and Flora Purim.

Though both Brazilian, the two came from starkly different backgrounds, Moreira from the rural hinterlands in the country’s far south, Purim from a cultured Jewish family in cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro. Moreira was famously self-taught, drumming for the first time as a young teenager when a travelling samba band was missing a percussionist (he did well). Purim learned music from her pianist mother and a large collection of jazz 78s, then trained on the guitar with bossa nova master Manoel da Conceição. The two met when Moreira’s Sambalanço travelled to Rio and Purim sat in with the band in 1965. The outfit, slightly reconfigured as the Sambrasa Trio, became the pair’s first collaborative project together.

Purim left Brazil in 1968, fleeing a repressive military government. She connected with jazz players—Thelonius Monk, Wayne Shorter, Carmen MacRae, Joe Zawinul, Cannonball Adderly and Stan Getz—soon after her arrival in New York City and by 1969 was touring Europe with Getz. Moreira followed her to the States in 1969, arriving in New York, then flying to join her in Los Angeles. In 1970, he was invited to play with Miles Davis, who was then beginning to incorporate global sounds into his music.

Purim was arrested on drug charges in 1971, in an ill-advised attempt to raise money for a musician friend Hermeto Pascoal. She went to prison in 1974, just as her career was starting to take off. She learned that she had been named Downbeat’s Female Jazz Vocalist of the Year for 1974 while in jail. She was released in 1975. Afterwards she and Moreira connected with Chick Corea and joined Return to Forever.

It’s an extraordinary story, but despite the tumult both artists remained productive. Purim and Moreira released a string of albums together, with Purim often singing on Moreira’s releases and Moreira playing percussion on hers. BBE’s retrospective includes music released from 1964 through 1996, from earthy, percussion-heavy samba to cerebral fusion jazz anthems to airy new age meditations.

What strikes you first is that Purim and Moreira were very different artists. Purim’s high, extraordinarily agile soprano put a cool, sophisticated gloss on everything she touched, while Moreira’s best work was gutsy, visceral and celebratory. Together, though, they had an undeniable chemistry. “Andei” from Moreira’s 1970 debut Natural Feelings, for instance, melds the swaggering, sauntering exuberance of Moreira’s percussion with Purim’s note-perfect buoyancy. “Light as a Feather,” perhaps Purim’s best known song and the title track to the 1970 Return to Forever album, follows silky smooth, nearly disembodied vocals through gnarly thickets of improvised sax, keyboards, bass (that’s Stanley Clarke) and, of course, percussion. “Oh Sonho (Moon Dreams)” incorporates some of Purim’s most angelic, inhuman singing ever (and that’s saying a lot), and it comes from Moreira’s psychedelic samba-jazz masterwork Seeds on the Ground.

Moreira’s latter work turns fractious and lo-fi, and indeed, the 1990s cuts included here—“Musikana,” “The Happy People” and “The Peasant Dance”—are among my favorites. Yet while punk-trained ears may balk at the glassy smoothness of, say, “Open Your Eyes You Can Fly,” there’s a lot of friction even in the interstices. Purim made Moreira’s grooves sound unearthly, and Moreira surrounded her with terrestrial warmth. It was a great partnership, one that has lasted 60 years and counting and that is very well documented here.

Jennifer Kelly

#airto moreira #flora purim #a celebration #bbe #jennifer kelly #albumreview #dusted magazine #bossa nova #jazz #fusion #brazil #miles davis #return to forever #Bandcamp

[croneskull]

Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior - 1976

#return to forever #romantic warrior #vinyl #jazz fusion #chick corea #mine: photos #mine #bourbon

[somethingvinyl]

Pulling out an early commercial fusion masterpiece today, and one of my earliest vinyl acquisitions from my college days! You really could buy up a pretty complete Chick Corea discography then for under $5 a record without looking that hard…

#chick corea #return to forever #jazz #jazz vinyl #vinyl

[ourladyofperpetualnaptime]

#chick corea #return to forever #flora purim #music #video

[rastronomicals]

4:26 PM EDT March 28, 2024:

Return to Forever - "Majestic Dance" From the album Romantic Warrior (1976)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Fusion

#Return to Forever #Romantic Warrior #Majestic Dance

[jazzdailyblog]

Stanley Clarke: Master of the Bass, Innovator of Jazz Fusion

Introduction: A small group of artists have changed the genre of jazz fusion by pushing the limits of their instruments. Among these musical pioneers is the renowned bassist, composer, and bandleader Stanley Clarke. With his unmatched technical ability, avant-garde playing approach, and ground-breaking compositions, Clarke has made an enduring impression on the jazz community and beyond. We go…

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#Al Di Meola #Art Blakey #Chick Corea #George Duke #Herbie Hancock #Horace Silver #Jazz Bassists #Jazz History #Jean-Luc Ponty #Joe Henderson #Journey to Love #Light as a Feather #Return to Forever #Romantic Warrior #School Days #Stanley Clarke #Weather Report

[valentinobaos]

Sobre Spain en Valpo...

#spain #chick corea #return to forever #jazz fusion #jazzrock #rhodes #epiano #keys #keyboard #fenderjazzbass #drums #jazzmusicians #jazzchile #jazzflamenco #valentinobaostrio #valentinobaos #felipemartinez #gustavo diaz #jam #me #valpo #pianista #valparaiso #Youtube

[newwarriorstalk]

Released 30 years ago today:

Darkhawk starred in the finale to the Return to Forever story as co-creator/artist Mike Manley said goodbye in Darkhawk issue 25 by Danny Fingeroth & Mike Manley.

#darkhawk #return to forever #danny fingeroth #mike manley #new warriors #marvel comics #comic books

[nectarine-vibes]

Return To Forever | Sorceress

#return to forever

[bizarrobrain]

"Spain" by Chick Corea - From "Return To Forever" (1973)

#Chick Corea #Return To Forever #Music #Jazz #YouTube

[jt1674]

#chick corea #return to forever #hamburg #1972 #stanley clarke #joe farrell #airto moreira #captain marvel

[dustedmagazine]

Emergency Group — Venal Twin (Centripetal Force)

Venal Twin is the second album this year from a band hip deep in 1970s fusion jazz. The players, as ever, include guitarist Jonathan Byerley of Plates of Cake and Anti-Westerns, keyboardist (and Barnard college prof) Robert Boston, drummer Andreas Brade (he teaches at Brooklyn School of music), and bassist Dave Mandl, and as before, they spin out from jazz, rock, kraut and psychedelia in heady extended jams.

These four cuts laid down in a separate session, though around the same time as Inspection of Cruelty, of which I said, in a brief review last March, “A 1970s futuristic cool hangs over the whole enterprise, in its chugging rhythms, its radiant runs of electric keyboards, its motorific jams.” All that still applies, in long, evolving reveries that drift and dream, but also twitch with coiled, suppressed violence. The wah-wah’d guitar in the opening title track is on edge right from the onset, and the keyboard thrashes with fever as it seeks out phosphorescing grooves. You can hear the bass better on this recording, and you recognize how Mandl values force and propulsion over all; he is always nudging, always bumping things forward, not bludgeoning exactly, but not letting anyone take a breather. These cuts are lengthy, but not the sidelong rovers of the earlier album, and they allow for brief, fiery bursts of wild shreddery that burst through the seams of head-nodding ritual rhythms.

“Dime Champ” goes the hardest out of this set, relentlessly pushing forward, more than a little funk in its wiry, minimalist frame. Guitar and drums are locked in syncopated foundation, while the guitar squawks, squeaks and italicizes and electric keyboards throw off neon flurries of cool temperature replies. You can intuit a dialog between these two melodic instruments, Byerley’s guitar in frantic, hair pulling agitation, Boston’s keys in icy, sly response. A change in rhythms about four minutes in pushes this cut towards Afro-beat, a clipped polyrhythm heavy on cowbell underpinning wild squalls of bent guitar notes.

The closer, “Wine & Lotto” likewise turns up the rhythm section, a rattling snare cadence braced by ponderous bass taking up the forefront of the cut. Keep listening, and bare-wire tangles of guitar sound jut from this frame, while nocturnal intimations of piano hover and curl. The piece goes on for nearly half an hour, evolving slowly like wreathes of smoke in blue light, a febrile play of heat and chill, of sync and contradiction, that never flags or stales.

Jennifer Kelly

#emergency group #venal twin #centripetal force #jennifer kelly #albumreview #dusted magazine #jonathan bylerley #robert boston #andreas brade #dave mandl #jazz #fusion #return to forever #Bandcamp

[lux-s-mind-com]

Purpose of this acc (plus a bit of an introduction)

Hello fellow reader or writer or poet or human, I’m Lux (that’s my pen name). I’m making this acc for a rlly cool idea I found on pinterest and that was to write a diary entry but rlly dramatized like the scene of a book. And to do that every day. So from now on I will use this app that I think was made to blog with these funny tags that make sentences to write my dramatized diary entries. They will probably be mostly fake, so dw if I write sm that sounds like an insane person wrote it, saying they see ghosts or smth. I will also write some random thoughts in here bc it’s fun and that way it feels more like a blog to me.

Now that you know what the inspiration was, why do I need a whole acc for it? Bc I JUST CANT WRITE A DIARY ENTRY EVERY SINGLE DAY. So I will use the internet to put some pressure on me. Thank you for being part of this.

And finally my fav part! Some facts about me:

I love jazz and bossa nova (I’m also half brazillian) and my fav bands are currently Return to Forever and Lamp WE ARE MARRIED IF YOU LIKE ANY OF THESE TWO ESPECIALLY IF IT’S RETURN TO FOREVER, ONLY OLD PPL KNOW THEM :(

Edit: I also like indie rock and I’m starting to like classic music too, so I just like anything that is instrumental and good

I’m good at latin >:) (and it may stay so if I cut excuses to learn vocabulary)

I’m 15 and genderfluidflux, normally use mirror prns but also others sometimes, I’ll put it in my bio if it changes (google what the things mean if you don’t know) and I’m mixed (brazillian and white, w native american (in brazil, duh) and african roots)

I like the sky a lot, it’s often in my pictures and was in my poem of yesterday :D

I have 3 novel wips (aka just bad involved ideas) for which I still don’t have plot nor the 1st draft (I keep writing poetry or just short texts to avoid them) 

Edit: I’m writing on a short story rn and IM ACTUALLY MAKING PROGRESS?? So yeah short stories are dope. I also love poetic use of language aka Shakespeare and good world building aka fantasy and good pacing aka Poe’s short stories

And lastly, I have an insta acc on which I post poems (also for Escapril) and pictures of things I like (not sky-pictures, already posted too many of them and that was a bad phase), so check it out if you’d like to read some poems :P (user: lux_the_poet_of_the_7_seas)

Now I’m gonna go watch Dead Poets Society cuz pinterest has been spamming me w it.

Edit: forgot to add that I love purpur tones but beige tones match me (and the whole poet/writer thing) more, plus I also like beige tones

#writer community #queer writers #im new to tumblr #diary blog #return to forever #lamp band #jazz #dead poet society #thoughts #poem #write #introducing myself #writer positivity #napowrimo #escapril #writer society #writing acc #writerbr

[corgiteatime]

Someone uploaded this weird fantasy prog rock/jazz fusion from 1976 with a bitching album cover to youtube and then the algorithm spat it out at a bunch of people, including me.

It sounds like, well, 70s prog rock mixed with jazz but also kind of sounds like the Persona 5 soundtrack. Like if you smoked a bunch of weed and drank a bunch of gas station coffee and then wrote a Tolkien knock off book series.

I dig the comments on this video. There's tons of people saying, "I saw this album at a thrift shop and always wondered what it sounded like and I would not have guessed this" and "My uncle had this album framed on his wall" and "No band from 1976 could ever predict this is how they would be discovered" and "It sounds like a ball of ethereal fire rattling around inside that suit of armor in the best way possible".

#youtube #video #music #prog rock #jazz fusion #return to forever