Return to the Seventh Galaxy: The Anthology
Appearance
Return to the Seventh Galaxy: The Anthology | ||||
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Compilation album by Return to Forever featuring Chick Corea | ||||
Released | September 1996 | |||
Genre | Jazz fusion, latin jazz, post-bop | |||
Label | Polydor / Verve | |||
Return to Forever featuring Chick Corea chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
All About Jazz | (highly recommended) [1] |
AllMusic | [2] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
Return to the 7th Galaxy: The Anthology is a 1996 compilation of 1972-1975 recordings made by bands assembled by Chick Corea under the name Return to Forever. The collection includes tracks from the albums Light as a Feather, Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy, Where Have I Known You Before and No Mystery, together with four previously unreleased tracks.[2]
Track listing
[edit]CD disc 1:
- "500 Miles High" (Chick Corea, Neville Potter)
- "Captain Marvel" (Corea)
- "Light as a Feather" (Stanley Clarke, Flora Purim)
- "Spain" [previously unreleased live version] (Corea, Joaquín Rodrigo)
- "After the Cosmic Rain" [previously unreleased live version] (Clarke)
- "Bass Folk Song" [previously unreleased live version] (Clarke)
- "Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy" (Corea)
- "Captain Señor Mouse" [live version] (Corea)
- "Theme to the Mothership" (Corea)
Disc 2:
- "Vulcan Worlds" (Clarke)
- "Beyond the Seventh Galaxy" (Corea)
- "Earth Juice" (Corea, Clarke, Lenny White, Al Di Meola)
- "The Shadow of Lo" [previously unreleased live version] (White)
- "Where Have I Known You Before?" (Corea)
- "Song to the Pharaoh Kings" (Corea)
- "Dayride" (Clarke)
- "No Mystery" (Corea)
- "Flight of the Newborn" (Di Meola)
- "Celebration Suite (Parts I & II)" (Corea)
Personnel
[edit]- Chick Corea – keyboards (acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano, Hohner clavinet, Yamaha electric organ, synthesizers), marimba, gongs
- Stanley Clarke – double bass, electric bass guitar
- Flora Purim – vocals, percussion (CD1 on tracks 1-3)
- Joe Farrell – flute, tenor saxophone (CD1 on tracks 1-3)
- Airto Moreira – drums (CD 1 on tracks 1-3)
- Bill Connors – acoustic guitar, electric guitar (CD1 on tracks 4-9)
- Mingo Lewis – percussion (CD1 on tracks 4-6)
- Steve Gadd – drums (CD1 on tracks 4-6)
- Al Di Meola – electric guitar, acoustic guitar (CD2)
- Lenny White – drums, percussion, congas, bongos, marimba (CD1 on tracks 7-9, CD2)
References
[edit]- ^ Hughes, Dave (1 September 1997). "Return to Forever - Return to the Seventh Galaxy: The Anthology (1996) album review | All About Jazz". allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
- ^ a b Yanow, Scott. "Return to Forever - Return to the Seventh Galaxy: The Anthology (1996) album review | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 304. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.