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Line-Up Ex-Members Albums Singles Videos Awards Various Refers
RETURN TO FOREVER
USA
*  1972

Line-Up (2011):

RETURN TO FOREVER (photo)
 

Frank Gambale - g
Stanley Clarke - bg
Chick Corea - kb
Lenny White - ds
Jean-Luc Ponty - viol

Former Members:

Bill Connors (g, 1972-74); Al Di Meola (g, 1974-cca 3/76, 2007-cca 3/08)
Flora Purim (voc, 1972); Gayle Moran (voc, kb, 1976-cca 1979)
John Thomas (tr, cca 4/77); James Tinsley (tr, cca 4/77); Jim Pugh (tr, cca 4/77); Harold Garrett (tr, cca 4/77)
Joe Farrell (sax,fl, 1972, cca 4/77)
Airto Moreira (ds, 1972); Gerry Brown (ds, cca 4/77)

Albums Discography:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.Return To Forever1972 ECM
2.Light As A Feather10/1972 Polydor
3.Hymn Of A Seventh Galaxy8/1973 Polydor
4.Where Have I Known You Before9/1974 Polydor 32
5.No Mystery13.06.1975Polydor 39
6.R.T.F. Live12.03.1976CBS
7.Romantic Warrior26.03.1976CBS 35
8.Music Magic22.04.1977CBS 38
9.Live: Complete Concert1978
10.Best Of Return To Forever1980
11.Anthology27.05.2008Concord
12.Returns17.03.2009Eagle
13.The Complete Columbia Albums Collection
(box set)		12.06.2012Columbia
14.The Mothership Returns
(3CD)		19.06.2012Eagle
15.Electric Lady Studio, NYC: June 197512.05.2015Hi Hat

Al Di Meola:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.Land Of The Midnight Sun4/1976 CBS
2.Elegant Gypsy
produced by: Al DiMeola		20.05.1977CBS
3.Casino
produced by: Al DiMeola		19.05.1978CBS
4.Splendido Hotel1979 2LP
5.Friday Night In San Francisco
& John McLaughlin & Paco De Lucia, prod. Al Di Meola/John McLaughlin/Paco De Lucia		05.12.1980CBS
6.Tour De Force04.02.1982
7.Electric Rendezvous1982
8.Scenario
credited to: Al Di Meola Project		11/1983 128
9.Passion Grace & Fire
& John McLaughlin & Paco De Lucia		6/1983 CBS
10.Cielo E Terra1985
11.Soaring Through A Dream1986
12.Tirami Su
credited to: Al Di Meola Project
produced by: Al Di Meola		1/1988 EMI 190
13.World Sinfonia9/1991
14.Kiss My Axe1991
15.Heart Of The Immigrants
credited to: Al Di Meola World Sinfonia
produced by: Al Di Meola		1993 Mesa Blue Moon
16.Orange And Blue10/1994 Verve
17.The Rite Of Strings
& Stanley Clarke & Jean-Luc Ponty		8/1995 I.R.S.
18.Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin
& John McLaughlin & Paco De Lucia		15.10.1996PolyGram
19.The Infinite Desire6/1999 Tellarc
20.First Snow28.09.1999Telarc Jazz
21.Anthology
(2CD)		24.10.2000Legacy
22.The Grande Passion24.10.2000Telarc Jazz
23.Inamorata27.08.2002Telarc Jazz
24.Flesh On Flesh27.08.2002Telarc
25.Revisited29.07.2003Varese
26.Vocal Rendezvous16.05.2006SPV
27.Cosmopolitan Life
& Leonid Agutin		26.09.2006SPV
28.Diabolic Inventions and Seduction for Solo Guitar, Vol. 1: Music Of Astor Piazzolla30.10.2007Inakustik
29.Beautiful Love: The NYC Sessions
& Eddie Gomez		01.04.2008Universal
30.Original Album Classics02.11.2010Sony
31.Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody15.03.2011Telarc
32.Live At the North Sea Jazz Festival10.04.2012Store For Music
33.All Your Life: A Tribute to the Beatles16.09.2013Allegro Corporation
34.Elysium09.06.2015In-akustik
35.Live 199524.06.2016Hi Hat
36.Morocco Fantasia10.03.2017In-Akustic
37.Opus3/2018
38.Across The Universe3/2020
39.Saturday Night In San Francisco - Live
& John McLaughlin & Paco De Lucia		7/2022

Bill Connors:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.Theme To The Guardian1975
2.Quiet Song
& Paul Bley & Jimmy Giuffre		5/1976 Improvising Artists
3.Of Mist And Melting28.07.1978ECM
4.Swimming With A Hole In My Body8/1979
5.Return01.02.2005Tone Center

Lenny White:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.Venusian Summer1975 Nemperor
2.Big City1977
3.Lenny White Presents The Adventures Of Astral Pirates24.02.1978Elektra
4.Streamline1978
5.Best Of Friends
& The Twennynine		1979
6.Twennynine With Lenny White
& The Twennynine		12/1980 Elektra
7.Just Like Dreaming
& The Twennynine		1981
8.Echoes Of An Era1982
9.Attitude1983
10.Present Tense15.05.1995Hip Hop
11.Edge01.03.1999Hip Bop
12.Lenny White Collection23.07.2002Hip Bop Essence
13.Tribute to Earth, Wind and Fire
credited to: The Lenny White Project		10.08.2004Trauma
14.Electric
& Victor Bailey & Larry Coryell		23.08.2005Chesky
15.Anomaly18.05.2010Abstract Logix
16.Live19.03.2013BFM Jazz
17.Explorations of Space and Time
& Jamey Haddad & Mark Sherman		21.05.2013Chesky
18.Lenny White Live02.07.2013Challenge

Gayle Moran:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.I Loved You Then, I Love You Now1979

Singles Discography:

#SP/EP TitleRelease DateLabelUKUSA
1.Captain Marvel / Spain1972 Polydor
2.Earth Juice / Beyond The Seventh Galaxy17.01.1975Polydor
3.Jungle Waterfall / Excerpt From The First Movement Of Heavy Metal4/1975 Polydor

Lenny White:

#SP/EP TitleRelease DateLabelUKUSA
1.Lady Madonna26.01.1979Elektra
2.Peanut Butter
& Twentynine		11/1979 Elektra 86
3.Kid Stuff
& Twennynine		11/1980 Elektra 106
4.Fancy Dancer / We Had To Break Away
& Twennynine		13.07.2012Elektra

Al Di Meola:

#SP/EP TitleRelease DateLabelUKUSA
1.Roller Jubilee8/1980 CBS

Videos:

1. Return To Forever: Returns Live At Montreux 2008 - 24.4.2009, Eagle, live

Awards:

1975 Grammy Awards - Best Jazz Performance By A Group ("No Mystery")

Various:

reunited 2007
2011 as Return To Forever IV

Lenny White:

appeared on the LP:

Stanley Clarke: Journey To Love (12/75, Nemperor)
Jaco Pastorius: Jaco Pastorius (4/76, Epic)
Brian Auger: Happiness Heartaches (2/77, Warner Bros)
Chick Corea: Touchstone (1982, Warner Bros)
Geri Allen: The Gathering (10/98, Verve)

produced by LP:
Tricia Tahara: Secrets (1/99, Savant)

Bill Connors:

appeared on the LP:

Stanley Clarke: Stanley Clarke (3/74, Atlantic)

Al Di Meola:

http://www.aldimeola.com

appeared on the LP:

Stomu Yamash'ta: Go (5.6.76, Island)
Stomu Yamash'ta: Go Too (9.9.77, Arista)
Chick Corea: Touchstone (1982, Warner Bros)
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh: Dance On Fire (1996, Columbia)
Dweezil Zappa: What The Hell Was I Thinking (9/96)
Eileen Ivers: Crossing The Bridge (9.2.99, Sony)

Gayle Moran:

appeared on the LP:

Chick Corea: The Leprechaun (2.4.76, Polydor)
Chick Corea: My Spanish Heart (25.2.77, Polydor)
Chick Corea: Touchstone (1982, Warner Bros)

Press References:

Melody Maker
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
19744112.10.197475Caught In The Actgig review
1975318.01.197519Albumsalbum review
19761113.03.197622Caught In The Actgig review
19761510.04.197624Albumsalbum review
19771830.04.197721Caught In The Actgig review
19772916.07.197726Albumsalbum review
New Musical Express
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
1974016.02.19742News Desk
1974023.02.197450Jazz
Rock & Pop
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
19951501.08.19956Galerie
20093 96Rewind - Classic Rockprofile