Return To Forever – Musicmagic (1977) [Reissue 2017]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 41:54 minutes | Scans included | 1,83 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 834 MB
Features Stereo and Multichannel surround sound | Label: Vocalion # CDSML 8528 | Genre: Jazz
Musicmagic is Return to Forever’s seventh and final studio album and one of the best jazz recordings released in the fusion genre. The album contains the final line-up of the band with only founders Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke returning from the previous recordings. This 1977 release was the first Return to Forever album in five years to contain vocals, performed here by Corea’s future wife Gayle Moran and the surprisingly enjoyable Stanley Clarke. This album also marked the return of original member Joe Farrell on saxophone and flute, along with several new members making up a killer five-piece horn section. This reissue features the original quadrophonic mix remastered from the original master tapes.
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Return To Forever – Musicmagic (1977) [Audio Fidelity 2016]
PS3 Rip | ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans (JPG, 300 dpi) | 795 Mb |
FLAC (Tracks), 24bit/88,2 kHz (converted with foobar2000) | Full Scans (JPG, 300 dpi) | 677 Mb
Genre: Jazz Rock, Fusion | 41:57 min | © 2016 Audio Fidelity #AFZ 250
Musicmagic is Return to Forever’s seventh and final studio album and one of the best jazz recordings released in the fusion genre. The album contains the final line-up of the band with only founders Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke returning from the previous recordings. This 1977 release was the first Return to Forever album in five years to contain vocals, performed here by Corea’s future wife Gayle Moran and the surprisingly enjoyable Stanley Clarke. This album also marked the return of original member Joe Farrell on saxophone and flute, along with several new members making up a killer five-piece horn section.
The sound is remarkably more orchestral than anything the group had previously done, a cross between fusion, jazz vocals, big band and grassroots accoustic jazz. Musicmagic celebrates the pure joy of music with contributions from Corea (“The Musician”), Moran (the existential jazz ballad “Do You Ever”), Corea and Moran together (“Musicmagic” and “The Endless Night”) and Clarke (“Hello Again” and the album’s single greatest moment, “So Long Mickey Mouse,” offering particularly great spots for Farrell’s flute and soprano, Corea’s keyboard kaleidoscope and Clarke’s entrancing bass).
The music of this new Return to Forever band overwhelms you with a great sense of accomplishment. The album reached #4 on the Billboard Jazz chart and doesn’t lose a beat when compared to previous works by the band.
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Chick Corea and Return To Forever – Light As A Feather (1973)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:03 minutes | 875 MB | Genre: Jazz, Fusion
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © GRP Records
Light as a Feather is one of the era’s defining LPs, what many musicians have called a perfect album — the ultimate expression of the period’s optimism. Its sheer, explosive joy surprised Chick Corea when he listened to it recently; he recalls in the liner notes searching then for a spiritual purity in his personal and creative lives. Even the band’s name, Return to Forever, reflected his need to “deliver from inside” to “get back to the vision”.
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