Forever (Corea, Clarke & White album)

Forever
Live album / Studio album by Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White
Released June 6, 2011
Recorded September 1, 16, 17 & 30, November 28 and December 12, 2009
Mad Hatter Studios, Los Angeles, CA, Yoshi's, Oakland, CA, Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, CA, The Blue Note Tokyo, Japan and Jazz Alley, Seattle, Washington DC
Genre Jazz
Length 138:57
Label Concord
CRE-32627-2
Producer Lenny White
Chick Corea chronology
Duet
(2009)		 Forever
(2009)		 Orvieto
(2010)
Return to Forever chronology
Returns
(2008)		 Forever
(2009)		 The Mothership Returns
(2011)

Forever is a double CD album of live acoustic recordings recorded in California, Tokyo and Seattle in 2009 by Return to Forever pianist Chick Corea, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White and studio rehearsals with guests Jean-Luc Ponty, Bill Connors and Chaka Kahn which was released on the Concord label I 2011.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Guardian[3]
All About Jazz[4]
PopMatters[5]

In 2012 the album received the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album.[6] The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek states "Disc one is taken directly from concert appearances across the globe. The standards work well -- considering how busy Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Lenny White can be together as well as solo... The gems are saved for disc two, which consists mainly of rehearsals for the tour recorded at Mad Hatter Studios in San Francisco, complete with off-mike banter... With its looseness, this second disc offers the real dynamic potential for RTF in the future and reveals the depth of near symbiotic communication between the bandmembers".[2] The Guardian's John Fordham noted "Clarke's beautiful tone and dramatic phrasing, White's melodic percussion playing and deft embroidery of catchy grooves, and Corea's fluency and lyrical grace bring a new spark to standards... The electric disc is a lot funkier... and the light touch and sense of enjoyment of the acoustic half mostly survives intact".[3] All About Jazz correspondent John Kelman observed "Eschewing RTF's relentless testosterone, the trio is as capable of elegance and understatement as it is of unequivocal virtuosity".[4] PopMatters' Will Layman wrote "The trio recordings are masterful in execution but maybe slightly “been there, done that” in repertoire... On the bonus disc, we get more of a mishmash.. The band is loose as can be in this rehearsal, tossing phrases back and forth, the whole enterprise seeming like the dialogue that jazz is always supposed to be".[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Chick Corea except as indicated

Disc One:

  1. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) - 8:41
  2. "Waltz for Debby" (Bill Evans) - 9:55
  3. "Bud Powell" - 7:10
  4. "La Canción de Sofia" (Stanley Clarke) - 7:38
  5. "Windows" - 8:54
  6. "Hackensack" (Thelonious Monk) - 7:30
  7. "No Mystery" - 10:55
  8. "Señor Mouse" - 12:06

Disc Two:

  1. "Captain Marvel" - 4:13
  2. "Señor Mouse" - 10:06
  3. "Crescent" (John Coltrane) - 1:45
  4. "Armando's Rhumba" - 5:12
  5. "Renaissance" (Jean-Luc Ponty) - 6:29
  6. "High Wire: The Aerialist" - 3:41
  7. "I Loves You, Porgy" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:13
  8. "After the Cosmic Rain" (Clarke) - 10:38
  9. "Space Circus" - 6:06
  10. "500 Miles High" - 12:45

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Chick Corea discography: album entry accessed September 9, 2016
  2. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. Forever > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  3. 1 2 Fordham, J. The Guardian Review, May 20, 2011
  4. 1 2 Kelman, J. All About Jazz review, February 28, 2011
  5. 1 2 Layman, W. PopMatters Review, February 9, 2011
  6. ↑ Grammy Awards: Chick Corea accessed September 9, 2016
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