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.

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la storia della musica italiana,il top,mitici

Fanno proprio cagare...non li avevo mai ascoltati e non ho perso niente😁😁

GODS ON EARTH!

just one of the best ensembles ever to play together. Stunningly wonderful music. Been listening since I was a baby. This, mahavishnu, metheny, and other Fusion artists of the time were my intro to music and shaped my musical taste and started my deep appreciation for true virtuosos.

Of the many concerts I have seen over the past 5 decades, "Return to Forever" along with "John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra" were far and away the best two performances. Two bands with extraordinarily and otherworldly talented performers, and two exceptional mind-blowing drummers.

Lenny White: pioneering jazz fusion drummer and creator of the tuxedo shirt.

The masters of discordant ,chaotic,musical ❤beauty

Too bad the Minimoog was misbehaving but Chick managed to get through.

wenh is in my neck of the woods! support public broadcasting

Concertone!!!

LENNY WHITE, IN THE MOVIE SqT.PEPPER'S LONELY❤CLUB BAND,TOWARDS THE END OF MOVIE IN THE CROWD , NICE MOVIE 1978.

I saw RTF in '76 or '77. Good reserved seats. I don't remember all that much about it, however, because we were quite stoned. Pity.

Unici ...,.....................❤❤❤❤

So glad I grew up listening to these guys in high school -- on a great local radio station and my LPs. Just drank coffee out of a Return to Forever mug (from the 2008 tour)

Amazing line up!!!

Setlist?

So So wonderful ,I surely remember seeing this live back in the day

the acustic song is beatifull and piece of art

I saw them at the Kennedy Center around that time. The energy in the air was palpable. If there's other lives, Chick, this one would be a hard act to follow!

Al is a very nice guy in my experience. :)

This is fckn good. Ty ty ty!❤❤❤

Per tutti i fan o dir si voglia il " popolo dei pooh " ho pubblicato il CONCERTO INTEGRALE DEL 27/07/2024 A CATTOLICA ( RN ).

a me fa riflettere come si senta, dalle voci, chiaramente un pubblico giovane. Ora i giovani dove sono? Sono passati da ascoltare qualità a immondizia dove viene sponsorizzata qualsiasi cosa tremenda

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

STANLEY CLARK ON THE Bass the whole band so great wowed

Capolavoro

Four super musician playing a well written album / program ❗❤

Vitous is Base.

LENNY!!!!!

VHS Forever :)

Such great memories! Saw them at least 3 times, the 1st with Earl Klugh, (just after Bill Connor left, though wish I could have seen him, great player), at Soldiers and Sailors Hall in Pgh, then several times later with Al Di Meola (Stanley Theater if I recall). Everyone filled with incredible musicianship. Took several friends who were stoned hard-rockers and they were BLOWN AWAY! Became instant fans for life!

GRAZIE!

These guys are historical man! WOW!

Jack DeJohnette is such a relentless drummer

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Crazy...............lots of vitamin C for Lenny! we grew up with this stuff......couldnt play it but hey???!

Quelle prouesse!! bravissimos tous les musiciens talentueux .👏👏💯🧑‍🎤

Oh my gosh,you and Carlos Santnna get together. YEAH

Si è bello questo concerto, ce l'ho in dvd originale da collezione, comunque bisogna essere realisti, loro stessi hanno detto che tra gli anni 87/88/89 facevano gli album un po da contratto, infatti non è stato un bell anno per loro il 1988, hanno detto che oasi sia tra gli album peggiori dei Pooh, nel momento che non sapevano più cosa fare, è arrivata la svolta, uomini soli ,Festival di Sanremo 1990, vincitori assoluti e bellissimo album e da li in poi tutti bellissimi album fino a opera seconda

Neither chick corea could defeat the seventh galaxy nor where have i .. before

The sound of Lenny’s drum’s is what every drummer should want. That fucking snare sound my god

Sounds like lots of us were listening to Chick back in the late 60s and 70s.

Oh Chick look at you in your little sailor suit!

Saw them at the Hollywood Bowl! It was incredible. They're each very, VERY talented! I was blown away. Best show ever!

32:50 absolute banger

Questa si che è vera musica , grandissimi ragazzi,qui in grande forma,tutti e quattro ❤❤❤❤💯🙋🌅🌈🌇🌆🥍🎤🎧📻🪘🥁🎻🪕🎸💿🔝🔝🔝

Grandissimi Pooh, emozione pura ascoltare,le vostre canzoni ❤❤❤❤

Thanks for uploading!