Live (Return to Forever album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Live
Type = live album
Artist = Return to Forever


Released = May 21, 1977
Recorded = 1977
Genre = Jazz-rock fusion
Length = 49:12
151:46 ("The Complete Concert")
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Return to Forever
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://wm06.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fvfrxqegldhe link]
Last album = "Musicmagic"
(1977)
This album = "Live"
(1977)
Next album = "Best of Return to Forever"
(1980)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate covers
Type = live album


Lower caption = Cover for "Live: The Complete Concert".

"Live" (also known as "Return to Forever Live") is the final album by fusion band Return to Forever. It was recorded live in New York City as part of the Musicmagic tour to support the album of the same name. This was the only tour to feature the "Musicmagic" lineup, which included original members Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Joe Farrell, along with newly added member Gayle Moran on piano and a six-piece horn section.

The album would later be released as "Live: The Complete Concert", showcasing the entire two-plus hour concert. This re-release would contain the entirities of pieces edited down for the single vinyl release years earlier, including an epic version of "Spanish Fantasy"; the intro to which was released as "Chick's Piano" originally. Also included are introductions to songs by Clarke, one in which he is heckled by the audience for announcing the concert's final piece.

Track listing

Original release

ide one

#"So Long Mickey Mouse" (Stanley Clarke) - 6:53
#"The Musician" (Chick Corea) - 7:03
#"Chick's Piano" (Corea) - 4:35
#"Musicmagic" (Corea, Gayle Moran) - 6:29

ide two

#"The Moorish Warrior and Spanish Princess" (Clarke) - 6:39
#"Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 3:19
#"The Endless Night (Part I)" (Corea, Moran) - 8:00
#"The Endless Night (Part II)" (Corea, Moran) - 7:14

"Live: The Complete Concert"

Disc one

#"Opening '77" (Corea) - 7:10
#"The Endless Night" (Corea, Moran) - 20:23
#"The Musician" (Corea) - 6:58
#"Stanley's Introduction" (Corea) - 1:24
#"Hello Again" (Clarke) - 6:02
#"So Long Mickey Mouse" (Clarke) - 6:43
#"Musicmagic" (Corea, Moran) - 27:26

Disc two

#"Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 3:55
#"Serenade" (Corea) - 14:53
#"The Moorish Warrior and Spanish Princess" (Clarke) - 19:20
#"Stanley's Introduction" (Corea) - 2:02
#"Spanish Fantasy" (Corea) - 24:46
#"Chick's Closing Introductions" (Corea) - 1:09
#"On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) - 9:35

Personnel

*Chick Corea - keyboards
*Stanley Clarke - Electric bass, Acoustic bass
*Joe Farrell - saxophone, flute
*Gayle Moran - vocals, piano, organ
*John Thomas - trumpet, flugelhorn
*James Tinsley - trumpet, piccolo
*Harold Garret - trombone
*Jim Pugh - trombone
*Ron Moss - trombone
*Gerry Brown - drums