Return To Forever

Gotta thank IKEA , or my own ineptitude at carpentry actually , for this post. This off-kit CD rack i assembled last summer is starting to collapse. Plenty of long neglected stuff falls into my consideration now. One of these is an awesome 2-CD Return To Forever live set bought sometime in the mid-00's. A sole copy lying in an obscure lower shelf off a quiet corner at Music World , Ansal Plaza , New Delhi , India. Lowish price too. Listening to it a lot these last few days.

Jazz. I believe you need to have at least some music theory in your head to honestly,truly and really get it. Take this really nice piece on what makes Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue an all-time great. You need something like that to explain. And even then you still gotta know your 12-Bar from your 32-Bar,your mode from your scale. Ha. Yes ,so music theory. Or an exceptionally sophisticated natural ear. Having neither , i've never got it - at least, not honestly,truly and really. And so never gotten into it.

But Jazz-Rock.Love it ! Just the right blend of far out and accessible. My orbit's been limited around Usual Suspects-planet though. Circa 1970-80's. (Didn't it all kinda die out after that ? Or no ?) In varying quantities of bits and pieces, your John McLaughlin / Mahavishnu Orchestra , Al Di Meola , Weather Report , Stanley Clarke, Pat Metheny , George Benson , Jaco , Tutu & Amandla -Miles, Jean Luc Ponty, Spyrogyra, and most of all i guess , Chick Corea / Return To Forever / Elecktic Band.

Hola You Tube. Video of Return To Forever's classic Sorceress , superb interplay between these gods Corea , Clarke , Di Meola. Absolute treat. Or , another link , the four-way trading between 2:25-6:00 on this link of Vulcan Worlds . Now that's how you want your mojo served up,man -sunny side up,hot sizzle on toast. Wicked stuff.