Thursday, June 26, 2008

Return To Forever...

Saw reunited 70's jazz fusion greats Return To Forever last night. Last time the band played together was 25 years ago. You'd never know it. They played phenomenally. 2+ hours of instrumental music performed by four incredibly great musicians. The band seemed like they were really having fun on stage - lots of smiles and the crowd was 100% into the music. There must have been 5 spontaneous standing ovations during the show. Superhuman is all I can say about the chops of Misters Corea, Clarke, Di Meola & White. Rumours of a possible new album to come as well. What an all around fun night.

Best quote of the night from drummer Lenny White. When talking to the crowd about the importance of instrumental music in our disposable music industry times:
"In an era of boy bands, we're a man band."

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