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Return to Forever, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Al Di Meola, Lenny White

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Critic's Pick

Of all the groups that sprung to life from the fevered loins of Miles Davis’ 1970s fusion experiments – from the grinding prog rock of Tony Williams’ Lifetime to Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters – Return to Forever was the wonkiest. This titanic collision of hyper-proficient players produced overly complex tunes that tried gamely to be both funky and propulsive, but often sounded like music-school experiments. This reunion tour brings together the so-called classic lineup of Chick Corea, Al Di Meola, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White, but Corea’s trademark angularity chisels away any of the fluidity one would expect from White, while enabling Di Meola and Clarke to engage in the worst kind of notes-per-second gamesmanship. Now that these guys are all old men … sorry, respected elders, it’s more than likely that this reunion tour will evince even more of those tendencies. (Staff)