RETURN TO FOREVER | The Legacy Part 2 | The Solo Albums

[@randygirard6691]

Prince of the Sea is a friggin classic! I love everything about that cut. The groove. The two chord (basically) simplicity Larry Coryell and Al Dimeola playing with so much feeling. Really brings me to tears still.

[@hermancharlesserrano1489]

Every one of these albums…CLASSIC!

[@mohammednazam4644]

Enjoying this series Andy. I'm a HUGE fan of RTF and all the members. All those albums are absolute killers. DAVID SANCIOUS! His solo albums are superb, you really must check them out. Transformation(Speed of Love) - OMG!

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Transformation will be featured in an upand coming video...sancious finally gets his due here!!!!

[@CurbSideManor]

What, no mention of Lenny Whites "The Adventures of Astral Pirates"? And Venusian Summer is my favorite. Oh! And I have most of all their individual albums! And all of Return To Forever!

[@stevesmith3990]

I really appreciate all these Jazz Fusion talks Andy. Thanks to you I am now discovering some great music that I wish I'd bought 40+ years ago. So far I have a box set of Jean Luc Ponty and RTF's Romantic Warrior which are fabulous. Next up I'm checking out Stanley Clarke's albums along with Al Di Meola and now Lenny White too! Cheers and keep up the great work.

[@visog]

Re. Stanley... I think he was pursuing a George Benson cross-over trajectory...

[@richardkendall7676]

looking forward to part three

[@jazzpunk]

David Sanscious. Monster! Sting's Soul Cages band...Sanscious, Colaiuta, & Miller. Sting hadda feel like Superman taking the stage with those guys.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

He is one hell of a musician

[@ranjgeordieevertonian1459]

Sorry,I hit the send button without finishing lol.Yeah thanks for the Channel,Jazz Fusion has been part of my musical make-up for the past 50 odd years.keep the vibe bro👍🎸🎷

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Your welcome....I seem to be hitting a subject here that is perhaps neglected elsewhere...

[@davestephens6421]

Brilliant!!! What music....was so lucky to be there when they came out....Still have all the reviews!!! They are so funny to read now!!

[@jazzpunk]

Great stuff! Agree, fun to read today. I have many of the Downbeat issues from that era...DB's reviewers could be brutal! And the Letters to the Editor. Definitely not PC! :-0

[@davestephens6421]

@@jazzpunkHahaha the critics here in the UK used to call jazz/rock a "musical cul-de-sack" how wrong they have proved...it has impacted on virtually every improvising musician since and on composition and rock too..... Just shows how much so called critcs know!!!!! I kept scrapbooks of ticket stubs from gigs, reviews anc interviews from that classic era......

[@jazzpunk]

@@davestephens6421 DB pretty much called anything with electric instruments (minus guitar)...Disco or a cash grab or selling out.

[@davestephens6421]

@@jazzpunk Hahaha yep......

[@ranjgeordieevertonian1459]

Superb Andy.I'ts great too share just how diverse these class musicians really were.Thanks so much for Channel

[@DaddyBooneDon]

My favorite Lenny White album comes after the two you mentioned, Adventures of Astral Pirates. Heavy Metal Monster Machine and Stew Cabbage And Galactic Beans are two amazing tracks. It's one of those albums you have to listen to from beginning to end.

[@douglasanderson8636]

Damn I love these videos!

[@WarhawkBeyond2040]

Fantastic follow up to part one and a great in depth look into all of the solo careers of the RTF members, one of the few bands where everyone not only got better together but thrived individually and have all gone to make fantastic music on their own. Very enjoyable insight and looking forward to part 3

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

I think there is a strong argument that the solo albums are even greater in there influence, esp. Elegant Gypsy and School Days

[@WarhawkBeyond2040]

That is very true especially as the composition style of their music is very heavily influenced by RTF

[@petertrotman7708]

George Johnson is one half of the Brothers Johnson. Charles is Icarus Johnson. Please get into the David Sancious catalogue, since the pandemic he's not been able to play due to same thing that struck down Keith Jarrett with his tendons. You may prefer his earlier work as they're a little bit more rockier but I especially "True Stories" and "The Bridge" as just great albums. He straddles the line of Prog/Rock and Jazz/Rock with such ease. Ernest "Born To Run" Carter on drums is a beast on all the albums. Cheers.

[@jeffreytaylor6257]

You must know that the last track hit the cutting room floor of Romantic Warrior.

[@georgelamie7001]

No idea where Mr. Dimeola came up with the notion that LotMS was Jaco's first time in a studio. Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life had come out the year before. Kind of a notable record! He had also recorded with Paul Bley, Ira Sullivan, and Little Beaver, to name a few

[@jazzpunk]

The Paul Bley album, sometimes called JACO (with Metheny & Ditmas), was recorded in 1974 (released 1976). Metheny's BSL was recorded in Dec 1975, released in Jan 1976 (Wow!). Di Meola's LotMS was recorded Aug/Sept 1975, released in Oct 1976. If wiki is correct.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Yes, I thought the Paul Bley album was his first but I know that was recorded as almost an arts funded project and not a major label recording. Even the ECM album would have been a pretty low budget affair, the sort of recording Jaco would have already experienced

[@neilloughran4437]

@@jazzpunk yes correct! I had to double check after watching Rick Beato's video.

[@georgelamie7001]

@@jazzpunk My source for the dates is the Jaco bio book. Milkowski > Wiki

[@rakeshadhin]

Lenny White's Adventures of Astral Pirates (1978) is his last great fusion solo album. So all three RFT members have initially made 3 great jazz-rock solo albums.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Thats right, and Treamline has some fantastic fusion on there too

[@georgelamie7001]

2010's Anomaly is as good as any of them.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

@@georgelamie7001 listening now...this really kicks. I have Present Tense and Renderers of Spirit which has some great fusion on there but this is proper jazz rock

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

@@georgelamie7001 And the drum sound is incredible....

[@devereauxclandestine1272]

I think a Ray Gomez 'comeback' album is long overdue. C'mon Ray make it happen!

[@ornleifs]

My dad had most of these so when I started to listen to Fusion in the late 70's this was my intro to this fantastic music and the piece that introduced me to Fusion was Egyptian Danza By Al Di Meola from the Casino album and then I saw he played on RTF and how all these guys were playing on each others albums so I recorded all of these on cassette and basically was blown away by all this fantastic musicianship. - But why didn't you also talk about the solo albums of Chick Corea who was making a string of Masterpieces in these years like the Leprechaun, My Spanish Heart, The Mad Hatter and Friends.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

I have a seperate video that looks at Chick Corea

[@neilloughran4437]

Lenny White doesn't get the credit I think... The drum parts on "Red Clay" alone are still to this day quite unique...

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

I agree, not in my house though....

[@thekeywitness]

Please do something about Larry Coryell and Eleventh House.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

I have

[@jeffreytaylor6257]

How good is Steve Gaad? JT

[@jazzpunk]

Down memory lane...again. Getting into Fusion, I'm browsing the Norfolk NEX's Jazz section. Stanley Clarke? Never heard of him. But who looks cooler than he on that eponymous titled 2nd LP?!?! "Lopsy Lu" was a mind 'bend' for this young wannabe bassist.

[@arnaudb.7669]

You forgot Lenny White "The Adventures of Astral Pirates" and Chick Corea "The Leprechaun", "My Spanish Heart" and "The Mad Hatter".

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

I didn't want to go too much after the dissolution of RTF when covering the solo albums and I have dealt with Chick's solo albums on another video

[@arnaudb.7669]

@@AndyEdwardsDrummer you're right ,o)

[@stevescott200]

Ok , only album I don't have is "Big City" I must remedy that.