All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Jazz legends, Chick Corea and John McLaughlin, will give a concert in Turkish capital Ankara next month as part of their European tour that reunited the artists after 30 years since they played with Miles Davis in the 1970s...
Rhymes With Snitch (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
First of all, Isaac Hayes had two funerals. There was the one on Monday that was open to the public and a private one on Sunday that was organized by the Scientologists. The Sunday one was filled to the brim with celebrities including Isaac's fellow scientologists Doug E. Fresh, Chick Corea, Tom Cruise, Anne Archer and Kelly Preston, as well as his non-Scientology celeb pals Denzel Washington, Wesley...
Grandgood (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Jamm Messenger Divine Experienced musician: experience with drums including all percussion. Performances Include: Horace Tapscott, Chick Corea, Bennie Maupin, Billy Childs, Billy Higgins, Lowell Fulsom, Perry Ferrell, Watts Prophets, Alkaholics, Freestyle Fellowship. Leadership skills: led hip-hop/jazz band (Underground Railroad) organized bookings, tours, finances. Experienced Producer: Pharcyde,...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
In support of their 2008 reunion tour, Concord Records has released Return to Forever: The Anthology, a selective overview of the quartet's classic 'middle period.' Formed by principal composer/keyboardist Chick Corea, RTF included bassist Stanley Clarke, drummer Lenny White and guitarists Bill Connors or Al DiMeola...
Lerterland (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
The show in Philly was ... wow, loud. It all comes down to Chick Corea. His playing was phenomenal, across all keyboards. The harmonic subtlety of that music is thanks largely to him. There were a couple too many moments of simultaneous bass-and-guitar shredding — good for getting peoples' fists in the air but not very deep. Yet there were also times when the high volume actually enhanced the musicality....
Billboard (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
"This is a really thrilling night for me -- my hometown and everything," Chick Corea told a Tampa Bay area audience openly hyped about the first tour in 25 years by Return to Forever, the keyboardist's seminal fusion band.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
Return to Forever, the jazz-fusion group founded in the early 1970s by master pianist Chick Corea, is in the midst of a reunion tour that few thought would ever happen.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
With the release of the remixed and remastered Return to Forever: The Anthology (Concord, 2008) fans of the reunited '70s fusion supergroup, touring North American and Europe since late May, including an attendance-breaking June 26 performance at the Ottawa International Jazz Festival, were given the chance to hear keyboard icon Chick Corea, guitarist Al Di Meola, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
Return to Forever together again: Al Di Meola, Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea and Lenny White A FEW days before kicking off their big reunion here, the members of the jazz-rock band Return to Forever shared a moment of collective astonishment. The keyboardist Chick Corea, the bassist Stanley Clarke, the guitarist Al Di Meola and the drummer Lenny White were gearing up to perform together for the first...
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Chick Corea got to play close to home and fusion fans got to see one of jazz-rock's most revered - and short-lived - combos Thursday night at Ruth Eckerd Hall.
Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
1. Guns-n-Roses: Appetie For Destruction (Sweet Child O’Mine sounds as good as the day it was released). 2. The Eagles: Hotel California (The Last Resort is sadly underrated, I think). 3. Chick Corea &: Return to Forever: Where Have I Known You Before? 4. Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out 5. Miles [...]
FT.com (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Chick Corea's launch of Return to Forever in 1972 was a deliberate attempt to break out of the experimental jazz ghetto he was then working in, but it took a couple of...
This is London (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Keyboard superstar Chick Corea and bass guitar ace Stanley Clarke are ageless wonders of virtuosic technique with seemingly inexhaustible ideas.
Dilated Choonz (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Lenny White – The Ride Drummer Lenny White featured on Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew before moving on to work with Chick Corea’s Return to Forever Jazz funk fusion project in the mid to late 70s. Come the 80s, Lenny picked up the electro-funk baton, forming Twennynine with like minded individuals. Ride (perhaps dedicated to his favoured Ride cymbals') is on the 1983 Attitude album released on Wounded...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
Why has it taken, um, forever, for jazz-rock fusion masters Return to Forever to reunite? Pianist Chick Corea has the classic lineup of himself, bassist Stanley Clarke, drummer Lenny White and guitarist Al DiMeola back together this summer after a 25-year-break.
