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Chick Corea / Return To Forever - Light As A Feather CD
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This 1998 reissue features the original 1972 LP on disc 1 and previously unreleased alternate takes on disc 2.
Chick Corea & Return To Forever: Chick Corea (electric piano); Airto Moreira (vocals, drums, percussion); Flora Purim (vocals, percussion); Joe Farrell (soprano & tenor saxophone, flute); Stanley Clarke (acoustic & electric bass).
Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Kevin Reeves.
Always tied to a confusing time line, the first released recording from the original configuration of Return to Forever was actually their second session. An initial studio date from the ECM label done in February of 1972 wasn't issued until after the band had changed in 1975. The Polydor/Verve recording from October of 1972 is indeed this 1973 release, featuring the same band with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Airto Moreira, Joe Farrell, and Flora Purim. There's no need splitting hairs, as both are five-star albums, showcasing many of the keyboardist's long enduring, immediately recognizable, and highly melodic compositions. Farrell's happy flute, Purim's in-the-clouds wordless vocals, the electrifying percussion of Airto, and Clarke's deft and loping electric bass guitar lines are all wrapped in a stew of Brazilian samba and Corea's Fender Rhodes electric piano, certainly setting a tone and the highest bar for the music of peer groups to follow. "Captain Marvel" -- the seed for the band sans Farrell and Purim that was expanded into a full concept album with Stan Getz -- is here as a steamy fusion samba with Corea dancing on the keys. By now the beautiful "500 Miles High" has become Purim's signature song with Neville Potter's lyrics and Corea's stabbing chords, and unfortunately became a hippie drug anthem. Perhaps Corea's definitive song of all time, and covered ad infinitum by professional and school bands, "Spain" retains the quirky melody, handclapped interlude, up-and-down dynamics, exciting jam section, and variation in time, tempo, and colorations that always command interest despite a running time of near ten minutes. "You're Everything" is a romantic classic that surely has been heard at many weddings, with another lyric by Potter sung in heaven by Purim, while the title track is Purim's lyric in a looser musical framework with Clarke's chart coalescing with Corea and Farrell's pungent flute work. As much as the others have become icons, the extraordinary sound of Farrell on this date should never be trivialized or underestimated. The final track, "Children's Song," was a springboard for several of Corea's full-length album projects, and is heard here for the first time via a trio setting in a slow, birthlike motif. The expanded version of this recording includes many alternate takes of four of these selections, but also includes "Matrix," which was not on any RTF albums, and there are four versions of "What Game Shall We Play Today?," which was only available on the ECM release. From a historical perspective, this is the most important effort of Corea's career, quite different than his prior previous progressive or improvising efforts, and the pivotal beginning of his career as the most popular contemporary jazz keyboardist in history. ~ Michael G. Nastos
Digitally remastered by Dennis Drake (Polygram Studios).
Recorded at I.B.C. Sound Recording Studios, London, England on October 8 & 15, 1972. Includes liner notes by Ben Young and Paul DeBarros.
Recorded at I.B.C. Sound Recording Studios, London, England on October 8 & 15, 1972.
Full performer name: Chick Corea & Return To Forever.
Producer: Chick Corea.
Reissue producer: Ben Young.
Chick Corea / Return To Forever - Light As A Feather Songs
| 1 | You're Everything
Chick Corea | 5:10 | $1.29 | |
| 2 | Light As a Feather
Chick Corea | 10:55 | | |
| 3 | Captain Marvel
Chick Corea | 4:53 | $1.29 | |
| 4 | 500 Miles High
Chick Corea | 9:06 | | |
| 5 | Children's Song
Chick Corea | 2:46 | $1.29 | |
| 6 | Spain
Chick Corea | 9:49 | | |
Light As A Feather Music Review
Average Rating: (3.7 out of 5 stars)   Music for your head!
Before RTF rocketed into heavy jazz-rock fusion, Flora Purim's ethereal vocals and Joe Farrell's flute gave this record a light and feathery touch. Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke were as dynamic as ever, and Airto provided the world beat percussion. Extended jams like 500 Miles High, Spain, and the title track take your mind to places far away.
Submitted by Riff (St. Louis, MO, USA)
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Very Good
Since I'm not partial to jazz singing, parts of this item are not to my taste. Nevertheless, the instrumentals were extraordinary, as can be expected from Chick. So, overall, good job.
Submitted by jkusa04 (Huntington Beach, CA) 
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This review is for a different format.  That delicate electric piano
Chick Corea recorded this masterpiece in 1973 as the second album with Return to Forever. The music is very poetic with the brilliant Fender Rhodes electric piano by Chick, the warm acoustic and electric bass by Stanley Clarke and not to forget the fantastic drumming and percussion work by Airto Moreira. I never quite became a fan of Flora Purim who sings on a few tracks, however. With the next releases, Return to Forever jumped on the very electric jazz-rock wagon, I personlly I think their music became less interesting. This remasterd and extended version (it includes other studio takes not found on the original album) of "Light as a Feather" is simply one of the classic jazz albums from the 70's,
Submitted by helge (Oslo, Norway)
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