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Released
  
June 6, 2011

Label
  
Concord CRE-32627-2

Release date
  
2010

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
138:57

Forever (2009)
  
Orvieto (2010)

Producer
  
Lenny White

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Recorded
  
September 1, 16, 17 & 30, November 28 and December 12, 2009

Studio
  
Mad Hatter Studios, Los Angeles, CA, Yoshi's, Oakland, CA, Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, CA, The Blue Note Tokyo, Japan and Jazz Alley, Seattle, Washington DC

Artists
  
Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Latin Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Album

Similar
  
Chick Corea albums, Jazz albums

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Forever is a double CD album of live acoustic recordings recorded in California, Tokyo and Seattle in 2009 by Return to Forever pianist Chick Corea, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White and studio rehearsals with guests Jean-Luc Ponty, Bill Connors and Chaka Kahn which was released on the Concord label I 2011.

Contents

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Reception

In 2012 the album received the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album. The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek states "Disc one is taken directly from concert appearances across the globe. The standards work well -- considering how busy Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Lenny White can be together as well as solo... The gems are saved for disc two, which consists mainly of rehearsals for the tour recorded at Mad Hatter Studios in San Francisco, complete with off-mike banter... With its looseness, this second disc offers the real dynamic potential for RTF in the future and reveals the depth of near symbiotic communication between the bandmembers". The Guardian's John Fordham noted "Clarke's beautiful tone and dramatic phrasing, White's melodic percussion playing and deft embroidery of catchy grooves, and Corea's fluency and lyrical grace bring a new spark to standards... The electric disc is a lot funkier... and the light touch and sense of enjoyment of the acoustic half mostly survives intact". All About Jazz correspondent John Kelman observed "Eschewing RTF's relentless testosterone, the trio is as capable of elegance and understatement as it is of unequivocal virtuosity". PopMatters' Will Layman wrote "The trio recordings are masterful in execution but maybe slightly “been there, done that” in repertoire... On the bonus disc, we get more of a mishmash.. The band is loose as can be in this rehearsal, tossing phrases back and forth, the whole enterprise seeming like the dialogue that jazz is always supposed to be".

Track listing

All compositions by Chick Corea except where noted.

Disc one

  1. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) - 8:41
  2. "Waltz for Debby" (Bill Evans) - 9:55
  3. "Bud Powell" - 7:10
  4. "La Canción de Sofia" (Stanley Clarke) - 7:38
  5. "Windows" - 8:54
  6. "Hackensack" (Thelonious Monk) - 7:30
  7. "No Mystery" - 10:55
  8. "Señor Mouse" - 12:06
  • Recorded at Yoshi's, Oakland, CA on September 16 & 17, 2009 (tracks 1-4, 7 & 8), at The Blue Note Tokyo, Japan on November 28, 2009 (track 5) and at Jazz Alley, Seattle, Washington DC on December 12, 2009 (track 6)

    • Disc two

    1. "Captain Marvel" - 4:13
    2. "Señor Mouse" - 10:06
    3. "Crescent" (John Coltrane) - 1:45
    4. "Armando's Rhumba" - 5:12
    5. "Renaissance" (Jean-Luc Ponty) - 6:29
    6. "High Wire: The Aerialist" - 3:41
    7. "I Loves You, Porgy" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:13
    8. "After the Cosmic Rain" (Clarke) - 10:38
    9. "Space Circus" - 6:06
    10. "500 Miles High" - 12:45
  • Recorded at Mad Hatter Studios, Los Angeles, CA on September 1, 2009 (tracks 1-9) and at the Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, CA on September 30, 2009 (track 10).

    • Personnel

  • Chick Corea — piano (Disc One and Disc Two, tracks 3-7 & 10), keyboards (Disc Two, tracks 1, 2, 8 & 9)
  • Stanley Clarke - bass (Disc One and Disc Two, tracks 1, 4-7 & 10), electric bass (Disc Two, tracks 2, 8 & 9)
  • Lenny White - drums (Disc One and Disc Two, tracks 1-3 & 5-10)
  • Bill Connors - guitar (Disc Two, tracks 2 & 7-9)
  • Jean-Luc Ponty - violin (Disc Two, tracks 4-5 & 7-9)
  • Chaka Khan - vocals (Disc Two, tracks 6-7)

    • Songs

    On Green Dolphin Street8:41
    Waltz for Debby9:55
    Bud Powell7:10

    References

    Forever (Corea, Clarke & White album) Wikipedia
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