Romantic Warrior is one of the best albums ever made. It has everything. Jazz is what musicians at all levels do to entertain each other. The audience comes in a close second. 😎 Jamm out and love everyone.
totally agree. Listen to this album several times per year for the last 40 years or so ... LOL ... and there are only VERY few albums where I do that (Koln Concert for example)
If I was given the choice to pick one song and one song only to listen to for the rest of my life it would be this live version of The Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant. It has it all.
Al Di Meola is a bloody force of nature. ( No need to address the utter brilliance of all this group's members.) The synchrony among these great musicians is astounding.
Landmark group, will go down in history as one of the most original and groundbreaking acts ever. Every musician ranks among the top players of their instruments, the songs were incredible, and Chick Corea was a composer's composer. Saw them live in the 80's or 90's reunion tour in Santa Barbara, CA. Amazing!
I was always bewildered by his studio version solo and at least having the visual reference of the live performance *kinda* demystifies all those insane licks he does with both hands. Kinda.
You got that right! I saw a video somewhere where he said he didn’t sweep pick and seemed to frown upon it. I couldn’t understand why he may have felt that way until the other day when I found out that Frank Gambale was playing RTF (Jean L-Ponty too). Maybe that’s why..
@@daledykes9253 with Al, he sticks to staccato deliberately and says hammer-ons and pull-offs are a "short cut" and frowns on it. To me, that's like throwing out half of the colors and brushes in your paint set. Being a strict doctrinarian can limit you.
The original 1976 album “Romantic Warrior” in which this song was featured, actually reached #35 on the “Billboard 200” album chart! Think about it... This album was “top 40”!!
Because we lived in a far more cultured and educated country back then. And what I mean by that, is no, not everyone out there had a PHD, but the average person could appreciate real music made by human beings, and knew the great legacy of each form of music, and knew the names of a dozen or more jazz musicians off the top of their head, and perhaps had become a fan of Dune by reading the book rather than the movie, etc etc. It was a more engaged world back then. Not perfect. There were still horrible problems in this world. But people had more genuine connections with their neighbors, their city, their world.
Angus Orvid So very true. I had dinner with a composer the other night and all we did was talk about the wonderful music that existed just a few decades ago and this is a perfect example of it. You have to dig deep to hear this music now. You can find it but you got a dig
Also Herbie Hancock's 1973 Headhunters album got to #13 in the billboard top 100, and was the largest selling "jazz" album of all time for several years (tho it was more funk based, there is tons of solid fusion in it too, funk fusion if you will). It has 4 very long songs, so they really stretch out, check it out if you havent already
I never thought a band revisiting their music could ever bring so much more to it 40 years later. I hear all the years of experience blended into it perfectly. Mind blowing!!
as a young music student at Leeds, England in 1973 I saw this ensemble perform this work. The keyboards gear were different. A Clavinet D6, a MiniMoog model D and the old faithful Fender Rhodes piano alongside a Yamaha organ. I thought, what in God's name is this. 2 hours later I was a fan. I'd seen the original Mahavishnu a year earlier and the writing was clearly on the wall. I've seen Chick many times. Talked to him even, and as one of his band members has said, "Chick is our Beethoven". I have numerous photos of the great man in my collection, but my most treasured possession is the reply in the post I received from him. It is framed, envelope included on my wall next to my pictures of him. He shall never be forgotten. Rest peacefully Armando Chick Corea. You made my life in music so much better.
I've seen Chick with so many different people.Last time I saw him was in New York with Steve Gadd.One of my favorites was a little outdoor 100 seater in Dallas Texas with Gary Burton.That was the 70s.He is missed.Ive also seen him with his wife Gayle Moran.She is a songbird!
@@lahoz6 LOL Not a problem in the studio, but live it's a little annoying to have to stop in the middle of one of his masterpieces so his tech can clean up the mess.I think you need to stick to listening to "Sweet Home Alabama" on your rock radio station.
Simply one of the greatest tracks ever composed, and performed live that I've ever heard. This piece just continues to build, and build into the most dynamic frenzy. And good heavens...Al Di Meola!!! I was nineteen when I was introduced to these fusion icons back in the late 70s, and I've never quite come back from it. Absolute Bliss!! Thank you for this, and good health to everyone!!
Why did we have to lose Chick? He was like a teacher to me as he was always able to talk about jazz and music in general. I came here now because I love and miss this music. The music is timeless. RIP Chick Corea!
When I started to really absorb music around 13 years old, I started out as a Heavy Metal & a Hard Rock kid with bands like Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Thin Lizzy. Then I moved towards more obscure bands like Steely Dan, Yes, Focus, Frank Zappa & The Mothers. Then when I was 17 years old I discover a genre called Jazz Fusion which completely changed my life and the bands from that genre that really helped define my taste. But the band that blew me away when I heard that first note from them was Return To Forever. You knew it might have been coming because of my profile picture but they are my favourite band of all time. I have only allowed myself to have one favourite RTF album, I could have easily just filled it up with all of their albums. The Romantic Warrior is my all time favourite album & if I could only have one album on a desert island it would be that one. I took a good long think about this question & I love the whole discography. I like the first couple Latin albums with Flora Purim. I adore the rawness & the variety of the early heavy Fusion albums. Their last studio album Musicmagic not so much but the live albums that they recorded just before they disbanded in 1978 are great. I also really like the Bill Connors era with RTF in 1973, I adore all the albums with Al Di Meola. Where Have I Known You Before is fantastic, No Mystery just a little bit lower in my ranking but side two of that album is beautiful. Of course Romantic Warrior is their masterpiece. Also all of their bootleg live recordings in 1976 are just amazing, I would have loved if they made an official live album during the Romantic Warrior tour, & even their reunion album Returns from 2008 is still really enjoyable. Overall when I looked at this entire catalog, not a very long one but with a lot of variety and live albums and recordings out there with all the jams and solos the musicians in the band created, I love the mellow music they do and the heavy music they do. I adore to death everything about it, I love Al’s phrasing & the dangerous nature of his shredding. Chick Corea is such an awesome composer and can really tell a story through a composition. Lenny White’s incredible monster drumming is so powerful, fiery & explosive, with Stanley being such a tight and direct bass player. Those two work really well as a rhythm section. I love Coreas Keyboard playing and like the whole fantasy/medieval world he makes with the tunes. Return To Forever never ceases to blow me away. The main reason I think they’re in here is because I have no problem with any of their albums and pretty much all of those records, I would listen to one on any given day and think yeah that’s got to be in my top list of favourite albums of all time.
It's a 30.75" Short Scale Bass, so not quite full size :) but I've always admired his ability to switch between the longest scale of bass (upright) to the one of the shortest with ease.
RTF. An amazing collaboration by any measure. I was bummed to hear it when Chick died. Now I realize how much more these people all mean to my life. A lot. These people are exceptional. So many folks today just don't and won't get it. Bon voyage Chick. Good return to forever.
J'ai entendu ce morceau pour la première fois lors de sa sortie en 1976. J'étais resté scotché. Je le réentends aujourd'hui, 43 ans plus tard, dans cette version Live in Montreux. Je suis toujours scotché !
Romantic Warrior and Heavy Weather were the LP`s to have back in 77`. Arguably the swan song of both bands and so different, but inspiring non the less. I never a competitive thing between RTF and WR. Just listened in amazement and definite enjoyment. Here is one of those reasons 30 years later and IMHO they play it better here.
This goes along so smoothly. Then halfway through it gets real intense. Seeing the smiles on their faces you know they realize how amazing what they are creating is. This Return To Forever lineup was always my favorite. Not sure Lenny White ever got his do. He plays so intensely yet effortlessly and complements the music so well.
+DrummerDanVa Lenny does a really funny imitation of Joe Zawinul in the Jaco documentary. It's quite humorous. Joe and Jaco = huge egos. Both bands great sounds though. The John, Al, and Paco guitar playing is magnificent too, those are great albums.
I first heard Return To Forever through a MIDI file of Romance Warrior which was particulary well done. I used now ancient software called Midisoft Studio to play with tracks, listen to the tracks individually. In around 1985/86, I bought the Return To Forever discography on vinyl for around £10, I was 10/11, and at the time most kids of my age were into usual 80s pop/hip hop, etc. so this blew my mind. It hooked me onto all the individual players, particularly Stanley Clarke and Lenny White and through association George Duke, Jaco, etc.
Met Chick & Gayle in Vegas after a Blue Note show. Absolutely wonderful guy & fantastically sparkling woman. So welcoming & down to earth. Miss you both. Chick...RIP. ❤️🎶
Lenny really drives this song home He is banging away and keeps her moving. Beautiful job by all. RIP Chick. I adore your music. I wish I had not fallen asleep at intermission from being stupid when I saw RTF live at the IU Auditorium in Bloomington in 1977. My really bad. :(
Wow-What to give to have been there! In 74/75 after release, I was fortunate enough to see this line up perform the album "Where Have I known You Before" in Chicago. It was my first concert and went with my eldest brother and his crew. They performed it exactly as the album sounded-It was amazing. These guys are absolute monsters on their instruments...RIP Chick
Al is such an incredible guitarist. The passion and confidence in his playing is so strong as well as the energy he gives off to the audience. I also love how he can exert so much power and still remain somewhat "reserved" with his emotions.
This album ,this song ,this line up Chick Al Stanley Lenny so damm friggin great. Since his passing I’ve must have played this album (Yes album vinyl) fifteen times. Driving my wife nuts.
This is one of the bands that made my musical experience and appreciation what it is today. As a teenager I saw them perform this entire album at Ebetts (sp?) Field in Denver CO in the early 70's. I also saw Gentle Giant there; another legendary prog band. And it is because of bands like this that my ear today can hear the beauty of one of the best modern progressive bands today - Jinjer, who I saw last year (preCOVID) and was blown away. Music like this and these other brilliant musicians and performers keeps me going after all these years, and no matter what's going on. Amen.
6:50 is where it goes out to lunch and the tears are swelling up. Stanley and Al grinning as Lenny doubles up and Chick takes the two handed Synth solo. The good old days all over again.
RIP Chick Corea. My music world was changed completely by your music. And while I've been to many, MANY concerts in my time, there was NONE more fulfilling than seeing and hearing Return to Forever on their reunion tour in 2007.
I'm so grateful that I can say that I know the feeling. I thought I had missed my chance to see RTF in concert. Instead, I got to see by far the most stunning musicianship I've ever seen in concert. These four aren't musicians - they are freakin' Jedi, and as incredible as the parts are, the sum of the parts is pure magic.
Just amazing! Our drummer and me from our rock band, went to see them in L A around '76 to see themdo this album. We were blown away. All 4 all-stars, we dat there with our mouths open in disbelief. Brings a huge smile to you, rip Chick- you are so missed.....
I saw them on this tour at The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion near downtown L.A. in 1976, I am still awestruck after all the years. Maybe that was the show you saw. DCP wasn't the usual venue. I grew up in The Valley.
Amazing. Unfortunately, we lost so many true artists in the past years. I'm open to suggestions from anyone like-minded. Thank you, and bless the innovators who changed everything (Parker, Miles, Brubeck, mingus) and Zappa
In total , separately & as return to forever Ive seen these guys maybe 15 times, This song at the Fillmore in Miami 2008 is one I will never forget. I was the encore & I got to shake Als hand afterwards.
One of the first Fusion albums I ever had, and this is still one of my favorite songs off that album! Masterpiece isn't a good enough word to describe how amazing this whole album is, even today!! This is THE example I'd use to show the noobs today what real musical talent really consists of! God I love this music!
THE POWER OF FREEDOM....AND THE FREEDOM OF POWER!!!! RELEASE DA BEAST!!! This peice and Boogie Woogie Waltz by Weather Report, changed the minds of many milk toast musicians!!! A WHOLE NOTHER ANIMAL!!!
Amazing. I saw these four musicians in Charlotte, NC's Ovens Auditorium in, I think 1975 or could have been 1974. This song was their encore piece at the end of the show. RTF changed the way i listened to music until i began to listen to Allan Holdsworth in the next few years. This group will always be special to me. I remember how excited i was to see them back then. They are sounding better now then ever!
My God, Al DiMeola is still as fast and precise on the guitar as ever. Always said he played like his hands went up and down on railroads tracks. This is truly amazing.
It was 1975 when I first heard this song.. still picking my jaw of the floor Thank you Ricky Scarpina and Danny Failing for introducing this music to me.. JM
This song swings in the most beautiful way. These men are the champions of harmony and grace and timing in the jazz fusion genre. I have watched this video and listened to it approximately 50 times and it has made me a better player.
This has got to be my all time favorite they’ve done. Blistering, precise and note on excellence. The whole package with beautiful melody and personality.💯
These guys are something something else, it's just ridiculous. The 'duel' is so genius, I swear I could write an 100 page paper about these 13 minutes. Just look at how the piano is slightly off from 4:23-4:33. Just to challenge them, fool them, play with them and look at their faces reacting. This whole thing is pure class from minute 1.
Bought this album at Naval Air Station Moffett Fld Calif---literally getting off of the plane summer 1976. Yes the Navy Exchange on the base had a selection this wide as did record outlets did in those days. I will add one more thing---Al's solo on "Jester" (recorded version) STILL affects me the way it did way back then!!!
I just love ALL The Super Bands that have shared their passion throughout ages whether it's a Duet to super large Ensembles. Their Compositions & Musicianship are nectar for all of us imbibe & NOT pit against each other ! I think God has a sense of humor availing us to glimpse Genius !!
All the great bands sound just as good or better live. That is certainly the case with these four Maestros. I had the pleasure of seeing them perform in their prime in the mid '70s on two occasions....
love the way Al's guitar goes from bright clean at 2:00 to full saturated tone after a few bars. very subtle but effective use of the dynamic of a Les Paul.
I remember listening to this album and wondering how they could ever pull this complex ish off live much more play it thru w/o reading..haha...well here you go!
I saw this is Detroit it was amazing! Thank you for the musical vaccination. If you are reading this you have the epitome of coolness taste in music and listen to kick ass jazz fusion !
Romantic Warrior is one of the best albums ever made. It has everything.
Jazz is what musicians at all levels do to entertain each other. The audience comes in a close second. 😎
Jamm out and love everyone.
totally agree. Listen to this album several times per year for the last 40 years or so ... LOL ... and there are only VERY few albums where I do that (Koln Concert for example)
This along with the first Van Halen album were the best albums ever!
Chick didn't die, he just Returned to Forever.
👍
Armando forever .
So true 👍 he, his music and his musicians in our ❤️ forever
Just like we all do. Already miss you chick
You hit the point, wonderful...
So sad, our musical world has become poorer.
We'll miss you, Chick !!!
If I was given the choice to pick one song and one song only to listen to for the rest of my life it would be this live version of The Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant. It has it all.
Al Di Meola is a bloody force of nature. ( No need to address the utter brilliance of all this group's members.) The synchrony among these great musicians is astounding.
The Greatest Jazz group in the History of the Planet Earth! RTF!!!🎸🎹🎸🥁
There's no such thing
@@nathandodge665 Oh, thank God someone like you was there to set us all straight.
@@rickkearn7100 thank you
I have a no favorites among this list of great fusion bands: RTF, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbies Headhunters, and Weather Report
It is always a delight to hear the great Lenny White and his distinctive and elegant timbre of sound! Very under rated drummer!
Landmark group, will go down in history as one of the most original and groundbreaking acts ever. Every musician ranks among the top players of their instruments, the songs were incredible, and Chick Corea was a composer's composer. Saw them live in the 80's or 90's reunion tour in Santa Barbara, CA. Amazing!
Rip Chick. Musical genius. Huge influence in my musical career
Hell yeah! Most influencial musician ever existed. RIP Maestro :'-(
Chick's solo on the minimoog is nothing short of brilliance, beyond words really.
That was absurd! I had to pause the video and go walk around after that
I was always bewildered by his studio version solo and at least having the visual reference of the live performance *kinda* demystifies all those insane licks he does with both hands. Kinda.
Al Di Meola, still playing those killer runs, every note picked, clean as anything. Not a hammer on or pull off in sight.
You got that right!
I saw a video somewhere where he said he didn’t sweep pick and seemed to frown upon it. I couldn’t understand why he may have felt that way until the other day when I found out that Frank Gambale was playing RTF (Jean L-Ponty too). Maybe that’s why..
Al D is New Jersey’s Son, not that Ahole who did the Jeep commercial.
@@JetEarlewood He was down on it long before Gambale played with RTF. He says you don't get the same articulation when you sweep, hammer or pull off.
@@alberthaust4542 it does sound tiresome after awhile though.
@@daledykes9253 with Al, he sticks to staccato deliberately and says hammer-ons and pull-offs are a "short cut" and frowns on it.
To me, that's like throwing out half of the colors and brushes in your paint set. Being a strict doctrinarian can limit you.
The original 1976 album “Romantic Warrior” in which this song was featured, actually reached #35 on the “Billboard 200” album chart! Think about it... This album was “top 40”!!
Because we lived in a far more cultured and educated country back then. And what I mean by that, is no, not everyone out there had a PHD, but the average person could appreciate real music made by human beings, and knew the great legacy of each form of music, and knew the names of a dozen or more jazz musicians off the top of their head, and perhaps had become a fan of Dune by reading the book rather than the movie, etc etc. It was a more engaged world back then. Not perfect. There were still horrible problems in this world. But people had more genuine connections with their neighbors, their city, their world.
Angus Orvid So very true. I had dinner with a composer the other night and all we did was talk about the wonderful music that existed just a few decades ago and this is a perfect example of it. You have to dig deep to hear this music now. You can find it but you got a dig
Yep and bought it the day it came out....didn’t leave the turntable or a few months
Yeah, bevore Trump, when the US Citizens where still good.
Also Herbie Hancock's 1973 Headhunters album got to #13 in the billboard top 100, and was the largest selling "jazz" album of all time for several years (tho it was more funk based, there is tons of solid fusion in it too, funk fusion if you will). It has 4 very long songs, so they really stretch out, check it out if you havent already
I never thought a band revisiting their music could ever bring so much more to it 40 years later. I hear all the years of experience blended into it perfectly. Mind blowing!!
What a band. What a song. What a rendition. Absolutely feckin out of this world.
Rip monsieur chick corea. Vous laissez au monde de la musique une oeuvre magistal et majeure pour l'éternité. Chapeau l'artiste. 😪😪
as a young music student at Leeds, England in 1973 I saw this ensemble perform this work. The keyboards gear were different. A Clavinet D6, a MiniMoog model D and the old faithful Fender Rhodes piano alongside a Yamaha organ. I thought, what in God's name is this. 2 hours later I was a fan. I'd seen the original Mahavishnu a year earlier and the writing was clearly on the wall. I've seen Chick many times. Talked to him even, and as one of his band members has said, "Chick is our Beethoven". I have numerous photos of the great man in my collection, but my most treasured possession is the reply in the post I received from him. It is framed, envelope included on my wall next to my pictures of him. He shall never be forgotten. Rest peacefully Armando Chick Corea. You made my life in music so much better.
Chick didn't care for the Fender Rhodes or the Mini Moog.He had nothing but problems out of them.
I've seen Chick with so many different people.Last time I saw him was in New York with Steve Gadd.One of my favorites was a little outdoor 100 seater in Dallas Texas with Gary Burton.That was the 70s.He is missed.Ive also seen him with his wife Gayle Moran.She is a songbird!
@@knifelyfe6565 maybe, but instead the sound was superior
@@lahoz6 LOL Not a problem in the studio, but live it's a little annoying to have to stop in the middle of one of his masterpieces so his tech can clean up the mess.I think you need to stick to listening to "Sweet Home Alabama" on your rock radio station.
@@knifelyfe6565 I have enjoyed MANY concerts of Chick playing her Mark V. Can't say the same for your "trusty" Yamaha Motif. Life is a risk LOL
The most amazing song, artists and composition I ever saw! I think this one is my favorite.
Simply one of the greatest tracks ever composed, and performed live that I've ever heard. This piece just continues to build, and build into the most dynamic frenzy. And good heavens...Al Di Meola!!! I was nineteen when I was introduced to these fusion icons back in the late 70s, and I've never quite come back from it. Absolute Bliss!! Thank you for this, and good health to everyone!!
Why did we have to lose Chick? He was like a teacher to me as he was always able to talk about jazz and music in general. I came here now because I love and miss this music. The music is timeless. RIP Chick Corea!
to whom it may concern: the sound quality on this is AMAZING.
WOW! AL DI MEOLA... GREATEST GUITARIST EVER!
I saw this Band 1976 in Graz, Austria. Mindblowing.
When I started to really absorb music around 13 years old, I started out as a Heavy Metal & a Hard Rock kid with bands like Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Thin Lizzy. Then I moved towards more obscure bands like Steely Dan, Yes, Focus, Frank Zappa & The Mothers. Then when I was 17 years old I discover a genre called Jazz Fusion which completely changed my life and the bands from that genre that really helped define my taste. But the band that blew me away when I heard that first note from them was Return To Forever.
You knew it might have been coming because of my profile picture but they are my favourite band of all time. I have only allowed myself to have one favourite RTF album, I could have easily just filled it up with all of their albums. The Romantic Warrior is my all time favourite album & if I could only have one album on a desert island it would be that one. I took a good long think about this question & I love the whole discography. I like the first couple Latin albums with Flora Purim. I adore the rawness & the variety of the early heavy Fusion albums. Their last studio album Musicmagic not so much but the live albums that they recorded just before they disbanded in 1978 are great. I also really like the Bill Connors era with RTF in 1973, I adore all the albums with Al Di Meola. Where Have I Known You Before is fantastic, No Mystery just a little bit lower in my ranking but side two of that album is beautiful. Of course Romantic Warrior is their masterpiece. Also all of their bootleg live recordings in 1976 are just amazing, I would have loved if they made an official live album during the Romantic Warrior tour, & even their reunion album Returns from 2008 is still really enjoyable.
Overall when I looked at this entire catalog, not a very long one but with a lot of variety and live albums and recordings out there with all the jams and solos the musicians in the band created, I love the mellow music they do and the heavy music they do. I adore to death everything about it, I love Al’s phrasing & the dangerous nature of his shredding. Chick Corea is such an awesome composer and can really tell a story through a composition. Lenny White’s incredible monster drumming is so powerful, fiery & explosive, with Stanley being such a tight and direct bass player. Those two work really well as a rhythm section. I love Coreas Keyboard playing and like the whole fantasy/medieval world he makes with the tunes. Return To Forever never ceases to blow me away. The main reason I think they’re in here is because I have no problem with any of their albums and pretty much all of those records, I would listen to one on any given day and think yeah that’s got to be in my top list of favourite albums of all time.
Stanley makes a full scale electric bass guitar look like a 3/4 scale toy.
I've seen him pick up and strum an upright bass like a goddamn ukelele, in his 60s. his fingers are stronger than my legs!
You should see him play mandolin!
@@miketharipr :)
It's a 30.75" Short Scale Bass, so not quite full size :) but I've always admired his ability to switch between the longest scale of bass (upright) to the one of the shortest with ease.
@@klodshans6404 Thank you for the clarification, Hans.
That was amazing to see live. I did see them way back in NYC 1970's. Sound mix was excellent. Thanks for posting.
RTF. An amazing collaboration by any measure.
I was bummed to hear it when Chick died. Now I realize how much more these people all mean to my life. A lot. These people are exceptional. So many folks today just don't and won't get it.
Bon voyage Chick. Good return to forever.
J'ai entendu ce morceau pour la première fois lors de sa sortie en 1976. J'étais resté scotché.
Je le réentends aujourd'hui, 43 ans plus tard, dans cette version Live in Montreux. Je suis toujours scotché !
Romantic Warrior and Heavy Weather were the LP`s to have back in 77`. Arguably the swan song of both bands and so different, but inspiring non the less. I never a competitive thing between RTF and WR. Just listened in amazement and definite enjoyment. Here is one of those reasons 30 years later and IMHO they play it better here.
+milestoneman Is atemporal.
This goes along so smoothly. Then halfway through it gets real intense. Seeing the smiles on their faces you know they realize how amazing what they are creating is. This Return To Forever lineup was always my favorite. Not sure Lenny White ever got his do. He plays so intensely yet effortlessly and complements the music so well.
+DrummerDanVa Lenny does a really funny imitation of Joe Zawinul in the Jaco documentary. It's quite humorous. Joe and Jaco = huge egos. Both bands great sounds though. The John, Al, and Paco guitar playing is magnificent too, those are great albums.
+SeaLisa It was a great era for music back in the 70's. Was fortunate enough to see Return to Forever and Mahavishnu live.
ITS A MAN'S BAND?
I like the fact that Lenny is playing open handed, and that is the way I play drums, like Simon Phillips and Billy Cobham
@@davidboatwright5701 Both Lenny and Billy are left handed. That’s why.
Still gives me goosebumps after all these years! I am 61!
Ditto!
I first heard Return To Forever through a MIDI file of Romance Warrior which was particulary well done. I used now ancient software called Midisoft Studio to play with tracks, listen to the tracks individually. In around 1985/86, I bought the Return To Forever discography on vinyl for around £10, I was 10/11, and at the time most kids of my age were into usual 80s pop/hip hop, etc. so this blew my mind. It hooked me onto all the individual players, particularly Stanley Clarke and Lenny White and through association George Duke, Jaco, etc.
Met Chick & Gayle in Vegas after a Blue Note show. Absolutely wonderful guy & fantastically sparkling woman. So welcoming & down to earth. Miss you both. Chick...RIP. ❤️🎶
Lenny really drives this song home He is banging away and keeps her moving. Beautiful job by all. RIP Chick. I adore your music. I wish I had not fallen asleep at intermission from being stupid when I saw RTF live at the IU Auditorium in Bloomington in 1977. My really bad. :(
Wow-What to give to have been there! In 74/75 after release, I was fortunate enough to see this line up perform the album "Where Have I known You Before" in Chicago. It was my first concert and went with my eldest brother and his crew. They performed it exactly as the album sounded-It was amazing. These guys are absolute monsters on their instruments...RIP Chick
I bought this album in 1976. This has to be one of my favorite songs.
How is this even possible?
Like, I’m losing my mind, this is so good.
Some of the chillest tunes out there man I got to see them live once.
What a delight bro
Al is such an incredible guitarist. The passion and confidence in his playing is so strong as well as the energy he gives off to the audience. I also love how he can exert so much power and still remain somewhat "reserved" with his emotions.
This album ,this song ,this line up Chick Al Stanley Lenny so damm friggin great.
Since his passing I’ve must have played this album (Yes album vinyl) fifteen times. Driving my wife nuts.
This is one of the bands that made my musical experience and appreciation what it is today. As a teenager I saw them perform this entire album at Ebetts (sp?) Field in Denver CO in the early 70's. I also saw Gentle Giant there; another legendary prog band. And it is because of bands like this that my ear today can hear the beauty of one of the best modern progressive bands today - Jinjer, who I saw last year (preCOVID) and was blown away. Music like this and these other brilliant musicians and performers keeps me going after all these years, and no matter what's going on. Amen.
6:50 is where it goes out to lunch and the tears are swelling up. Stanley and Al grinning as Lenny doubles up and Chick takes the two handed Synth solo. The good old days all over again.
RIP Chick Corea. My music world was changed completely by your music. And while I've been to many, MANY concerts in my time, there was NONE more fulfilling than seeing and hearing Return to Forever on their reunion tour in 2007.
saw that tour, blessed to have been there. unbelievable.
I'm so grateful that I can say that I know the feeling. I thought I had missed my chance to see RTF in concert. Instead, I got to see by far the most stunning musicianship I've ever seen in concert. These four aren't musicians - they are freakin' Jedi, and as incredible as the parts are, the sum of the parts is pure magic.
Just amazing! Our drummer and me from our rock band, went to see them in L A around '76 to see themdo this album. We were blown away. All 4 all-stars, we dat there with our mouths open in disbelief. Brings a huge smile to you, rip Chick- you are so missed.....
I saw them on this tour at The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion near downtown L.A. in 1976, I am still awestruck after all the years. Maybe that was the show you saw. DCP wasn't the usual venue. I grew up in The Valley.
Amazing. Unfortunately, we lost so many true artists in the past years. I'm open to suggestions from anyone like-minded. Thank you, and bless the innovators who changed everything (Parker, Miles, Brubeck, mingus) and Zappa
In total , separately & as return to forever Ive seen these guys maybe 15 times, This song at the Fillmore in Miami 2008 is one I will never forget. I was the encore & I got to shake Als hand afterwards.
These guys are the reason i listen to instrumentals religiously. Not a singer songwriter out there that can make this sound any better than it is!
Back when they did this album back in ‘76 they were just kids, what talent!
Al di Meola joined RTF when he was 19
When Romantic Warrior was recorded he was 22 !
what a masterpiece.... no one can make such music ever again...as a drummer myself Lennys style is so unique to me but they all ad up
Easily the best 4-piece electric band ever.
Yes, at least in the non-vocal category.
RTF was great....another 4 piece great band....The Crusaders. Joe Sample, Larry Carlton, Stix Hooper and Wilton Felder.
Vocal stuff doesn't count, since the musicians are limited to what they can do by the vocalist.
Casiopea?
YOu really meant to say :"" ...the best 4-piece electric band FOREVER ! "" didn't you ! ..lol
Love the album and this track the most Chick was so great.
they just get better as the years go by
And then some!! Just insane musicians!!
Words fail me. That doesn’t happen often. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
One of the first Fusion albums I ever had, and this is still one of my favorite songs off that album! Masterpiece isn't a good enough word to describe how amazing this whole album is, even today!! This is THE example I'd use to show the noobs today what real musical talent really consists of! God I love this music!
THE POWER OF FREEDOM....AND THE FREEDOM OF POWER!!!!
RELEASE DA BEAST!!!
This peice and Boogie Woogie Waltz by Weather Report, changed the minds of many milk toast musicians!!! A WHOLE NOTHER ANIMAL!!!
sounds fabulous. awesome musicians.
All of them like good wine, getting EVEN better with age.
They set milestones in the 70'ies. Compositions and the sound on Romantic Warrior
63patzi Their best album!
And, "Where Have I Known You Before," my favorite:) So sad that Chick had to travel on too soon.
Great performance by an amazing band!
Amazing. I saw these four musicians in Charlotte, NC's Ovens Auditorium in, I think 1975 or could have been 1974. This song was their encore piece at the end of the show. RTF changed the way i listened to music until i began to listen to Allan Holdsworth in the next few years. This group will always be special to me. I remember how excited i was to see them back then. They are sounding better now then ever!
My God, Al DiMeola is still as fast and precise on the guitar as ever. Always said he played like his hands went up and down on railroads tracks. This is truly amazing.
I have this DVD!!It is awesome!!Saw the show in Houston live in 2008!!It was an experience indeed!!I own Al’s signature PRS Private stock!!
I was there too. 2nd level front row center
There's no need to say words. Just listening to this great bunch of genius.
It was 1975 when I first heard this song.. still picking my jaw of the floor
Thank you Ricky Scarpina and Danny Failing for introducing this music to me..
JM
Got emotional watching. My favorite music.
This song swings in the most beautiful way. These men are the champions of harmony and grace and timing in the jazz fusion genre. I have watched this video and listened to it approximately 50 times and it has made me a better player.
BRILLIANT! From a prefect album. :)
Whew! Breathtaking artistry. it’s been a while since I revisited RTF. So refreshing!
A compilation of great musicians playing to the max
Very good music 🎶
A great masters of music
Chick is definitely a big influence in my music.
I saw RTF at Akron University EJ Thomas Performing Arts Hall in 1983!!!! I WAS 18, IT CHANGED MY FREAKING LIFE!!
Went to tears. Saw them live in Tampa couple years ago. The best live band experience of my LIFE.
Was one of the lucky people on Earth to see this tour! ✌️
Just wow!!! Mind blowing band, with so much talent on one stage, is fantastic.
Still awesome after all these years :-)
Absolutely incredible! RIP Chick and thank you for your magical music and your musical inspiration to me and so many
This makes me SO happy!
Not long after posting the above, I was in a 2nd hand shop and found the DVD of this concert, unopened, still wrapped in plastic, only $5. Score! :-)
Amazing music. A Jazz-Classical-Music symphony with a groove and lots of rhythm.
This has got to be my all time favorite they’ve done. Blistering, precise and note on excellence. The whole package with beautiful melody and personality.💯
The chops of these guys are beyond, and than that smooth grooving, dammm.
This must have been days prior to seeing them at The Community Concourse in Downtown San Diego 1976
They Were FANTASTIC!!
A true master who will be sorely missed.
These guys are something something else, it's just ridiculous. The 'duel' is so genius, I swear I could write an 100 page paper about these 13 minutes. Just look at how the piano is slightly off from 4:23-4:33. Just to challenge them, fool them, play with them and look at their faces reacting. This whole thing is pure class from minute 1.
This also tells you who is jester and who is tyrant... Or does it?
@@SenorKraut He was the leader in many projects. Also he was telling them what's the correct pace for his coming solo.
Amazing lineup and always one of my favorite bands since my first listen back in '80 or so!
Thank you CHICK!!! Many, many thanks for everything, and may you rest in peace
THE BEST GROUP OF ARTISTS WHO ARE LEGENDS
Bought this album at Naval Air Station Moffett Fld Calif---literally getting off of the plane summer 1976. Yes the Navy Exchange on the base had a selection this wide as did record outlets did in those days. I will add one more thing---Al's solo on "Jester" (recorded version) STILL affects me the way it did way back then!!!
My daughter and I saw this show when the tour came to Detroit!
I just love ALL The Super Bands that have shared their passion throughout ages whether it's a Duet to super large Ensembles. Their Compositions & Musicianship are nectar for all of us imbibe & NOT pit against each other ! I think God has a sense of humor availing us to glimpse Genius !!
He seguido a Al Dl Meola desde los años 70 y la verdad es un verdadero prodigio en su estilo.
Your music will live on FOREVER Chick Corea. Peace Brother.
The bass line from the original recording is mind-blowing
Much Gratitude.
All the great bands sound just as good or better live. That is certainly the case with these four Maestros. I had the pleasure of
seeing them perform in their prime in the mid '70s on two occasions....
Glorious! The genius of immortal Chick, steller Stanley, awesome Al and Legendary Lenny!
dude this is to top notch - thanks - fricken AL still shredding like he neva aged - so great
This is what going to see a live band is all about, stellar! RIP Maestro Armando
love the way Al's guitar goes from bright clean at 2:00 to full saturated tone after a few bars. very subtle but effective use of the dynamic of a Les Paul.
I remember listening to this album and wondering how they could ever pull this complex ish off live much more play it thru w/o reading..haha...well here you go!
I saw this is Detroit it was amazing! Thank you for the musical vaccination. If you are reading this you have the epitome of coolness taste in music and listen to kick ass jazz fusion !
Just blows me away! I'm so glad I brought up his name in our column last week.
These guys are epic. They are ALL tops at what they do. Wish I had been there live to see this!