No Mystery Return To Forever

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Product Details

Artist : Return to Forever
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0042282714923
Label : Verve
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2008-03-17
UPC : 042282714923

ASIN : B0000046YL

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Dayride
2. Jungle Waterfall
3. Flight of the Newborn
4. Sofistifunk
5. Excerpt from the First Movement of Heavy Metal
6. No Mystery
7. Interplay
8. Celebration Suite, Pt. 1
9. Celebration Suite, Pt. 2

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Customer Reviews

True-No Mystery Here! (2004-03-30)

Sorry but most of Return to Forever's post-1972 albums arehoplessly pompous and overindulgant and as such "No Mystery"focuses primarily on a strident funk groove highlited on theclassic "Sophistifunk"-on the first four cuts anyway.Corea tries to get in a little indulgance on on the "Celebration" suites but even "Excerpts From The First Movement Of Heavy Metal" is A-1 fusion.It would've been nice if funkmeistersStanley Clarke and Lenny White coluld've extened that great groove over the course of the album but this is one of theirbest later albums.

Essential Jazz-Funk-Fusion! (2003-11-16)

Wow. This is a timeless recording by Return To Forever.

The acoustic and electric guitar work of Al Di Meola (only 21 years of age when this classic was released) sends chills up my spine each time I hear it. Chick Corea, the consummate musician, is once again virtuous on the synthesizer, organ, and piano. The drums of Lenny White are tight, and the bass work of Stanley Clarke is immensely complex, yet very sonorous.

This disc is a gem. To give it any less than a five-star rating is criminal. It's good to know music like this exists at an affordable price, especially in our world of hackneyed, superficial pop-music. With each listen of "No Mystery," a new level of music appreciation is procured.

Brilliant stuff.

spanish-latin funk jazz (2003-11-13)

This incarnation of Return to Forever (1975) was quite different to the one featuring Bill Connors on guitar on Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (1973). He had managed to find a nervous, if not neurotic, and edgy sound on the electric guitar probably modelled on MacLaughlin's on Inner Mounting Flame.

Al Dimeola brings a completely different, more polished presence to this record, in terms of the tone of the electric guitar and its meshing with a more funk oriented rhythm section of Stanley Clarke and Lenny White. I always thought this album was like jazz rock in the disco: there's an overt physical, sensual energy about the music rather than the much headier Seventh Galaxy.

Side one is just about all funk, with occasional leanings to heavier rock influences. For me the album hits the spot at the beginning of what was side two on the lp: the title track sees some beautiful and typical Corea, latin influenced acoustic piano and guitar interchanges with double bass; more in line with the earliest incarnation of Return to Forever on ECM (a great record).

There's no doubt this album shows the shifting emphasis in the mid seventies: even McLaughlin was doing funk tunes on Visions of the Emerald Beyond and Inner Worlds, and George Duke's albums (Faces in Reflection, Feel, The Aura will Prevail) from that time were completely fantastic too (now no longer available).

I can leave side one alone these days, but side two still captivates me. It is much more similar to Romantic Warrior, with fluctuating moods and textures, especially on various keyboards, and has a wonderfully positive, if not ecstatic mood. Plus, it's a very summery record, full of sun and life.

The Ultimate Jazz-Fusion Album to Date (2002-03-12)

Return To Forever was one of the original 3 greats (the other two being Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra) in the 70's jazz/fusion era. This album is superb in quality and texture, in that every song is a masterpiece brought to us from the genius of Chick Corea, who is the master of melodies and rythems. An undying, untiring effort from 4 outstanding musicians, this is one of the essential albums to own, sitting along side greats such as The Beatles' White Album, Steely Dan's Royal Scam, and Led Zeppelin's Untitled (Four Symbols).

No Mystery at all really. (2001-10-11)

I am going to buy this great album on CD, because I have it on vinyl, and it is worn out. Thank God for modern technology! Stanley Clarke, Al DiMeola, Chick Corea and Lenny White, show you what fire, passion and creativity, in recorded music is all about with this disc. I have yet to hear any musicians before or since RTF, really push the envelope in performing the art form known as "jazz fusion", with the possible exception of Vertu. The key to "No Mystery" is the virtuosity of each musician. Not before or since, have I heard a collection of virtuoso musicians, and composers who were great individually, and yet could check their egos at the door and put together awesome music like this. If you haven't checked out RTF and "No Mystery" do so with a quickness, it will open your eyes, and show you how weak, commercial and tepid jazz and other music forms are now!

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