Return to Forever
Context
Title piece of the Chick Corea album recorded on February 2 and 3, 1972, in New York for ECM, produced by Manfred Eicher. This opener of about twelve minutes, written by Corea, brings together the quintet with Joe Farrell, Stanley Clarke, Airto Moreira and Flora Purim, which would later adopt the name Return to Forever. Released in Germany and Japan in 1972, the album did not come out in the United States until 1975.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to ECM and European jazz, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk. Among the origins and influences of ECM and European jazz: Free jazz, Modal, French jazz, Polish jazz, Free improvisation and European free.