[Windflier]

I wore their records out, back in the day. This performance is from their 2008 reunion tour.

[BenLurkin]

Still have this one with the rest of the forgotten vinyl...

[jaz.357]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB4roWRH6Bs

[MV=PY]

Thank you!

[Blue Highway]

Can’t believe it was 10 years ago already to when I saw them reunite for this one-off tour. Sounded great and all players put out great performances. I saw Al Dimeola last year and was still good, but didn’t have the fire of the 2008 Return To Forever show.

[Mariner]

Welcome to 4/188 time.

How can musicians be so talented and adept and still not generate a single catchy tune to stick in your head?

No melody. No phrasing.

Just a collection of notes in shifting keys and 4/188 time.

I so don’t get jazz. I don’t understand the appeal of a genre that does not stir emotion.

[mylife]

I love RTF

[mylife]

Don’t forget Bill Connors

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Bill+Connors+Assembler&&view=detail&mid=B4F7F211D264028D14D0B4F7F211D264028D14D0&&FORM=VRDGAR

[mylife]

I’m a huge fusion, prog rock fan, but like everything.

I went to see Maynard Ferguson at the Idora Park Ballroom as a teen, The other kids were off to see Zepplin.

I Am so glad I went to all those shows

A bluegrass fest in WV is a HOOT!

[mylife]

I saw Dimeola, Mclaughlin an Paco Delucia, Saw the late great Larry Corryel a dang ol Texan.

You will hear every Stevie Ray signature chop here in this 1969 recording by Larry.

Saw them both

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_q1i1sOXk0

[montag813]

Meh. Not their best performance. DiMeola especially. And seem bored. And horrid mixing by the incompetent “engineer”

[deadrock]

Weather Report and RTF made magical music.

[FreeReign]

Never saw Return to Forever, but I did see Al DiMeola in Albany, and Jean Luc Ponty, I think it was in Buffalo, in the late 70's.

Those were the best Jazz Rock days for me.

Thanks for the post.

[PresidentFelon]

I have to listen to The Romantic Warrior about once a week. I went to college for music and understand how special these musicians are. I still listen to a lot of old Fusion but have come to love some of the prog rock bands like Symphony X and Dream Theater.

I don’t know that I’ve heard a more talented group of musicians than the ones in Dream Theater. Those guys are ridiculous.

[TChad]

Thanks for posting. I haven’t seen these guys since the original version of the band. I hung around after the excellent performance just so I could say hello to Chick Corea.

[plain talk]

Good stuff. Thanks for posting!

[wardaddy]

I like Cobhams Spectrum with one of the best guitar players ever

Tommy Bolin ...dead man walking you could see it coming but what a player....only 25 he beat the magic 27

Speaking of which I bumped into Dave Mustaine (Metallica megadeth)and his lovely wife Pam today at Whole Foods Franklin....she’s a good looking woman and he’s more or less one of us....Williamson county is refuge to so many rock peeps seeking an easier place for families

Early Tom McLaughlin corralled some great talent too like Corey and Cobham and Jan Hammer and Jean Luc Ponty

You know who else who fused a lot....Zappa....his Mothers had a line of talent too...Ponty and Lowell George and Ansley Dunbar and Terry Bozzio

Zappa’s Rats album was very early jazz rock which is synonymous with fusion jazz to my layman ears

I’m thinking of music back then....Weather areport....Cobham and McLaughlin played on Bitches Brew ....the bridge album from jazz to jazz rock

I just put Spectrum in my B&O headset.....Tommy Bolin shredding it right outta the gate......Quadrant Four..I need to get that YouTube guitarist review guy Filo of Wings of Pegasus to do Bolin...wow

Pat Methany , Flora Purim , Donato, Stanley Turrentine, Grover Jr, Maynard Ferguson , Al Dimeola and George Benson and Dixie Dregs and Spyro Gyra and the list goes on....Tom Scott and his work with Joni Mitchell

Jazz fusion made esoteric jazz more palatable to rock fans ..Steely Dan really aced it with Aja

It also brought Jazz up out of older generations and the Beats

And it sure best Disco didn’t it

I definitely like it bette now to be honest...you get old and jazz and Bach too both get better

[wardaddy]

Pat Methany....if I left him off...my bad...major guy from that era

Brian Auger.....very very early jazz rock guy....the Oblivion Express....anyone remember that ?

George Duke....course

Herbie Hancock.....another great and nice man

Spectrum is just three players really with some select add ins like Hammer on keyboards

Incredible

The Cream of jazz rock

Thanks for prompting me to put this on

[Psalm 73]

Thanks, Windflier.
I still have "Light as a Feather" and "Romantic Warrior" on vinyl - 16-year old daughter loved them when I tossed them on the turntable. (So there is hope for this next generation).

[Joe Boucher]

Saw them do a free concert at the University of Florida in about 1970, then three times since.
Really good each time.

[dfwgator]

This is still my "go to" album to mellow out....