The Mothership Returns
2012 live album by Return to Forever
The Mothership Returns | ||||
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Live album by Return to Forever | ||||
Released | June 18, 2012 | |||
Recorded | July 12, 2011, September 13, 2011 | |||
Venue | Austin, Texas (September) Montreux, Switzerland (July) | |||
Genre | Jazz fusion | |||
Length | 112:30 | |||
Label | Eagle | |||
Producer | Tim Cavanaugh, Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea, Geoff Kempin, Adam Mason, Bill Rooney, Terry Shand, Lenny White | |||
Return to Forever chronology | ||||
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Chick Corea chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
All About Jazz | [1] |
AllMusic | [2] |
The Mothership Returns is a live two CD/single DVD set by the fusion band Return to Forever. Released 18 June 2012 by Eagle Rock Entertainment, it documents music performed during the 2011 tour, for which Return to Forever was expanded to a quintet with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White and new members Jean-Luc Ponty on violin and Frank Gambale on guitar. The album peaked #6 in the 2012 and 2013 Jazz Album charts.[3]
Track listing
Disc one
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Medieval Overture" (Chick Corea) | 6:03 |
2. | "Senor Mouse" (Corea) | 12:10 |
3. | "Shadow of Lo/Sorceress" (Lenny White) | 16:05 |
4. | "Renaissance" (Jean-Luc Ponty) | 19:40 |
Disc two
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "After the Cosmic Rain" (Stanley Clarke) | 16:52 |
2. | "The Romantic Warrior / Señor Blues" (Corea, Horace Silver) | 18:20 |
3. | "Concierto de Aranjuez / Spain" (Corea, Joaquín Rodrigo) | 8:12 |
4. | "School Days" (Clarke) | 11:24 |
5. | "Beyond the Seventh Galaxy" (Corea) | 3:44 |
DVD-Video
- Inside the Music (film, documentary)
- "After the Cosmic Rain" (Live, Austin, Texas)
- "The Romantic Warrior" (Live, Montreux, Switzerland)
- The Story of Return to Forever (sneak peek movie trailer)
Personnel
Musicians
- Chick Corea – acoustic piano, keyboards
- Stanley Clarke – double bass, electric bass
- Lenny White – drums
- Jean-Luc Ponty – violin
- Frank Gambale – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Production
- Devin Villery – audio systems technician
- Bernie Kirsch – monitor engineer
- Travis Rogers – sound engineer
- Tim Cavanaugh – producer
- Stanley Clarke – co- & executive producer
- Chick Corea – co- & executive producer
- Geoff Kempin – executive producer
- Terry Shand – executive producer
- Lenny White – producer, executive producer
- Terry Cooley – production manager
- Rob Griffin – tour manager
- Mick Guzauski – mixing
- Buck Snow – mixing
- Greg Calbi – mastering
- Adam Mason – editing, producer
- Kris Campbell – tour manager
- Paul May – tour manager
- James "McGoo" McGregor – stage technician
- Brian Alexander – keyboard technician
- Eric "Stretch" Hanson – bass technician
- Jim Moran – drum technician
- Matt Druzbik – lighting director
- Evelyn Brechtlein – production coordination
- Anna Robertson – production assistant
- Librado Barocio – director
- Dan Muse – liner note coordination
- Liner notes by Chick Corea, Jean-Luc Ponty, Frank Gambale, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White, Robert Trujillo
- Graphic design by Marc Bessant, Julie Rooney
- Photography by Matt Bizer, Andrew Elliott, Martin Philby, Arne B. Rostad
Chart performance
Year | Chart | Position |
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2012 | Billboard Jazz Albums | 6 [3] |
References
- ^ Kelman, John (19 June 2012). "Return to Forever - The Mothership Returns (2012) album review | All About Jazz". allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
- ^ Jurek, Thom. "Return to Forever - The Mothership Returns (2012) album review | AllMusic". allmusic.com.
- ^ a b "Return to Forever - The Mothership Returns (2012) | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
External links
- Russ Davis (September 16, 2011). "RTF IV in Austin, Texas". JazzTimes.
- Return to Forever - The Mothership Returns (2012) album review by Thom Jurek, credits & releases at AllMusic
- Return to Forever - The Mothership Returns (2012) album credits & user reviews at ProgArchives.com
- Return to Forever - The Mothership Returns (2012) album to be listened as stream on Spotify
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- Airto Moreira
- Flora Purim
- Bill Connors
- Steve Gadd
- Mingo Lewis
- Earl Klugh
- Al Di Meola
- Gerry Brown
- Harold Garrett
- Gayle Moran
- James E. Pugh
- John Thomas
- James Tinsley
- Ron Moss
- Return to Forever Live / ...Live: The Complete Concert
- Returns
- The Mothership Returns
- The Best of Return to Forever (1980) Sony
- This is Jazz, Vol. 12 (1996) Sony
- Return to the Seventh Galaxy: The Anthology (1996) Verve
- Return to Forever: The Anthology (2008) Concord
- Return to Forever: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (2011) Sony
- Captain Marvel (1972) Verve
- Forever (Corea, Clarke & White) (2011) Concord