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Return to Forever is a jazz fusion group founded and led by pianist Chick Corea. [1]

75 relations: Airto Moreira, Al Di Meola, Anthony Braxton, Avant-garde jazz, Barry Altschul, Bass guitar, Bill Connors, Billboard 200, Bitches Brew, Captain Marvel (album), Chaka Khan, Chick Corea, Chick Corea Elektric Band, Circle (jazz band), Columbia Records, Concord Records, Dave Holland, Double bass, Drummer, Dweezil Zappa, Eagle Records, Earl Klugh, ECM Records, Electric piano, Europe, Flora Purim, Flute, Frank Gambale, Frank Zappa, Gayle Moran, Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy, In a Silent Way, James E. Pugh, Jazz, Jazz fusion, Jean-Luc Ponty, Joe Farrell, Keyboard instrument, Kiss My Axe, Latin music, Lenny White, Light as a Feather, Live (Return to Forever album), Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis, Mingo Lewis, Music of Spain, Music recording certification, Musicmagic, ..., New York City, No Mystery, Piano, Polydor Records, Progressive rock, Return to Forever (Chick Corea album), Return to Forever: The Anthology, Return to the Seventh Galaxy: The Anthology, Returns (album), Rochester, New York, Romantic Warrior, Saxophone, Scientology, Sony Music, Spain (instrumental), Stan Getz, Stanley Clarke, Steve Gadd, Synthesizer, The Mothership Returns, Tony Williams (drummer), Verve Records, Weather Report, Where Have I Known You Before, Zappa Plays Zappa. Expand index (25 more) »

Airto Moreira

Airto Moreira (born August 5, 1941) is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist.

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Al Di Meola

Al Laurence Di Meola (born July 22, 1954) is an American jazz, jazz fusion, and world music guitarist.

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Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist who is known in the genre of free jazz.

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Avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz.

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Barry Altschul

Barry Altschul (born January 6, 1943, New York City) is a free jazz and hard bop drummer who first came to notice in the late 1960s for performing with pianists Paul Bley and Chick Corea.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Bill Connors

Bill Connors (born September 24, 1949) is an American jazz guitarist who was a member of Chick Corea's band Return to Forever.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Bitches Brew

Bitches Brew is a studio double album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on March 30, 1970, on Columbia Records.

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Captain Marvel (album)

Captain Marvel is a jazz album by saxophonist Stan Getz released in 1974 on the Columbia Records label.

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Chaka Khan

Chaka Khan (born Yvette Marie Stevens, March 23, 1953) is an American recording artist whose career has spanned five decades, beginning in the 1970s as the lead vocalist and focal point of the funk band Rufus.

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Chick Corea

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941) is an American jazz pianist/electric keyboardist and composer.

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Chick Corea Elektric Band

Chick Corea Elektric Band is a jazz fusion band, led by pianist Chick Corea.

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Circle (jazz band)

Circle was an avant garde jazz ensemble active in 1970 and 1971.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Concord Records

Concord Records is an American record label owned by Concord Music and based in Beverly Hills, California.

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Dave Holland

Dave Holland (born 1 October 1946) is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades.

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Double bass

The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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Drummer

A drummer is a percussionist who creates and accompanies music using drums.

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Dweezil Zappa

Dweezil Zappa (born Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa, September 5, 1969) is an American rock guitarist and occasional actor.

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Eagle Records

Eagle Records is an English record label, a division of Universal Music Group and Eagle Rock Entertainment.

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Earl Klugh

Earl Klugh (born September 16, 1953) is an American jazz guitarist and composer.

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ECM Records

ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is an independent record label founded by Manfred Eicher in Munich in 1969.

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Electric piano

An electric piano is an electric musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of the piano-style musical keyboard.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Flora Purim

Flora Purim (born March 6, 1942) is a Brazilian jazz singer known primarily for her work in the jazz fusion style.

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Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Frank Gambale

Frank Gambale (born 22 December 1958) is an Australian jazz fusion guitarist.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.

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Gayle Moran

Gayle Moran is a vocalist, keyboard player (piano, organ, and synthesizer), and songwriter born in 1943.

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Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album

The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album is an award that was first presented in 1959.

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Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy

Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (1973) is Return to Forever's third studio album.

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In a Silent Way

In a Silent Way is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis, released on July 30, 1969, on Columbia Records.

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James E. Pugh

James Edward Pugh (born November 12, 1950) is a trombonist, composer, and educator.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jean-Luc Ponty

Jean-Luc Ponty (born 29 September 1942) is a French jazz violinist and composer.

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Joe Farrell

Joseph Carl Firrantello (December 16, 1937 – January 10, 1986), known as Joe Farrell, was an American jazz saxophonist and flautist.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Kiss My Axe

Kiss My Axe is an album by Italian-American jazz fusion guitarist Al Di Meola, released in 1991.

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Latin music

Latin music (Portuguese and música latina) is a genre that is used by the music industry as a catch-all term for any music that comes from Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking areas of the world, namely Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, as well as music sung in either language.

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Lenny White

Leonard White III (born December 19, 1949) is a three-time Grammy Award-winning American jazz fusion drummer, born in New York City, best known for being the drummer of Chick Corea's Return to Forever.

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Light as a Feather

Light as a Feather is the second studio album by jazz fusion band Return to Forever led by pianist Chick Corea.

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Live (Return to Forever album)

Live is the final album by fusion band Return to Forever.

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Mahavishnu Orchestra

Mahavishnu Orchestra were a multinational jazz-rock fusion band formed in New York City in 1971 by English guitarist John McLaughlin.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Mingo Lewis

James Mingo Lewis (born December 1940) is an American jazz percussionist who played with Carlos Santana's band and as a sideman for Al Di Meola.

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Music of Spain

The music of Spain has a long history.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Musicmagic

Musicmagic is the seventh and final studio album of fusion band Return to Forever.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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No Mystery

No Mystery (1975) is the fifth studio album by jazz-rock fusion band Return to Forever.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Polydor Records

Polydor is a British record label and company, that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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Return to Forever (Chick Corea album)

Return to Forever is a jazz fusion album by Chick Corea, simultaneously functioning as the debut album by the band of the same name.

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Return to Forever: The Anthology

Return to Forever: The Anthology is a compilation of the "electric years" of jazz fusion band Return to Forever.

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Return to the Seventh Galaxy: The Anthology

Return To The 7th Galaxy: The Anthology (1996) is an anthology of recordings made from 1972 to 1975 by bands assembled by Chick Corea under the name "Return to Forever." The album is a compilation of tracks from the four Polydor studio albums, Light as a Feather, Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy, Where Have I Known You Before and No Mystery together with four previously unreleased live tracks (including a very funky 14 minute version of "Spain").

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Returns (album)

Returns is a live album by the fusion band Return to Forever.

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Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York.

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Romantic Warrior

Romantic Warrior is the sixth studio album by the American jazz fusion band Return to Forever, released in 1976 by Columbia Records.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Scientology

Scientology is a body of religious beliefs and practices launched in May 1952 by American author L. Ron Hubbard (1911–86).

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Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is a Japanese-owned global music conglomerate owned by Sony and incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. (in Japanese), Sony Corporation The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the SME name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, including former Columbia Pictures subsidiary Arista Records as well as RCA Records, and led to the dissolution of BMG, which instead relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest of the "Big Three" record companies in the world, behind Universal Music Group (UMG) and ahead of Warner Music Group (WMG). Sony's music publishing division is the world's largest music publisher after the acquisition of EMI. It also owns SYCO Entertainment, which operates some of the world's most successful reality TV format including Got Talent and The X Factor.

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Spain (instrumental)

Spain is an instrumental jazz fusion composition by jazz pianist and composer Chick Corea.

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Stan Getz

Stan Getz (born Stanley Gayetski; February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke (born June 30, 1951) is an American bassist and founding member of Return to Forever, one of the first jazz fusion bands.

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Steve Gadd

Stephen Kendall Gadd (born April 9, 1945) is an American drummer, percussionist, and session musician.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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The Mothership Returns

The Mothership Returns is a two CD set and one DVD by the fusion band Return to Forever.

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Tony Williams (drummer)

Anthony Tillmon "Tony" Williams (December 12, 1945 – February 23, 1997) was an American jazz drummer.

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Verve Records

Verve Records, founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, is home to the world’s largest jazz catalogue and includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stan Getz and Billie Holiday, among others.

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Weather Report

Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s.

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Where Have I Known You Before

Where Have I Known You Before is the fourth album by jazz-rock fusion band Return to Forever, the second since leader Chick Corea had "revamped" the line-up and moved towards electric instrumentation, playing jazz fusion with clear influences from progressive rock.

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Zappa Plays Zappa

Zappa Plays Zappa (previously momentarily renamed as Dweezil Zappa Plays Frank Zappa) is an American tribute act led by Dweezil Zappa, the eldest son of late American composer and musician Frank Zappa, devoted to performing the music of Frank Zappa.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Forever

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