Jazz keyboard player Chick Corea's Return to Forever emerged as one of the key jazz-rock fusion bands of the 1970s. Like Weather Report and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, they were formed by an alumnus of Miles Davis' late-'60s bands with the intention of furthering the jazz-rock hybrid Davis had explored on albums like "Bitches Brew". On May 20-21 1977, Return to Forever recorded a live album at the Palladium Theater in New York City, but Corea disbanded the group after the tour. The recordings featuring Stanley Clarke and Gayle Moran a.o. were released as "Live" in February 1979, when it spent a month in the charts. Through this re-issue the band's amazing musical accomplishments of those days remain available to be heard on record!
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