Re: RETURN TO FOREVER

Jim Ayson (jra@europa.com)
Sat, 10 Feb 96 03:12 PST


At 08:05 PM 2/9/96 -0500, bdwyer@grove.ufl.edu wrote:
>Now you've got me rooting through boxes of tapes. I came up with one
>that, unfortunately, doesn't have an album title and it bugs me. It has
>the following tracks: Captain Marvel, Captain Senor Mouse, Armando's
>Rhumba, 500 Miles High, Love Castle, Vulcan Worlds, No Mystery, and
>Spain. Contributing artists include Stanley Clarke, Al Di Meola, Flora
>Purim, Airto Moreira, Joe Farrell, Lenny White, and Jean-Luc Ponty.

They're not all from the same album....

Armando's Rhumba (with Jean-Luc Ponty) and Love Castle were from Chick
Corea's solo effort "My Spanish Heart"

500 Miles High and Spain were from Return to Forever's "Light as a Feather".
This version of RTF had a different lineup from the electric jazz-rock RTF
most people know and love. The "latin-jazz" RTF had Joe Farell on flute and
sax, Airto on drums, Flora Purim on vocals, Stanley Clarke on Acoustic bass,
and Corea on Rhodes piano.

Vulcan Worlds was from the electric Return to Forever's "Where Have I Known
You Before"

No Mystery was the title track of an RTF album.

Captain Senor Mouse I think was from hmmm... geez, now that escapes me. Same
with Captain Marvel, maybe its from the first RTF album. I do remember that
Stan Getz covered CM once though.

Chick Corea's great, but I wouldn't call him or his comrades funky enough to
be classified as "acid jazz"... the RTF efforts belong in the "fusion" bag...

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