Name: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection by Return To Forever
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Sorceress

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The Romantic Warrior

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Majestic Dance

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The Magician

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Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant )

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The Musician

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Hello Again

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Musicmagic

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So Long Mickey Mouse

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Do You Ever

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The Endless Night

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Opening '77

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The Endless Night

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Chick Corea: Spoken Intro of the Musicians

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The Musician

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Stanley Clarke: Spoken Intro to Hello Again / So Long Mickey Mouse

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Hello Again

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So Long Mickey Mouse

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Musicmagic

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Come Rain or Come Shine

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Stanley Clarke: Spoken Intro to Serenade

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Serenade

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Chick Corea: Spoken Intro To The Moorish Warrior and Spanish Princess

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The Moorish Warrior and Spanish Princess

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Stanley's Introduction

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Chick's Piano Solo

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Spanish Fantasy

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On Green Dolphin Street

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This chapter in the Complete Columbia Albums series showcases the end of Return to Forever's initial run that had begun on Polydor with a very different band. The best-known line-up -- Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White, and guitarist Al di Meola -- appears only on the first album in this set, the iconic 1975 session Romantic Warrior, which was issued in 1976 (the rest of their recordings together are all on Polydor). According to many, it is the apotheosis and end of jazz-rock fusion proper. The lackluster Musicmagic was issued in 1977 with only Corea and Clarke remaining in the lineup -- though saxophonist and flutist Joe Farrell had returned from the band's earliest incarnation in the early '70s. The last three discs in this collection are made up of Return to Forever's Live: The Complete Concert, with the same basic lineup as Musicmagic. This live album had a checkered release history in the United States. It initially appeared as a single LP simply called Live -- single because it had been edited down from the two-and-a-half-hour concert. Two years later, in 1979, it was issued as a four-album set, unedited. On compact disc, it first appeared as a two-disc set that deleted all of the spoken intros and dialogue, and featured the LP-edited versions of "The Musician" and "So Long Mickey Mouse." In Japan, the complete concert was released as a triple-disc set, and it is that version which appears here. For this reason alone, it may be worth the entire purchase price for Return to Forever's America and European fans who didn't set out the big money for the Japanese version. ~ Thom Jurek

The Complete Columbia Albums Collection

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Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 3

Volume 4

Volume 5

Volume 1

1. Medieval Overture

2. Sorceress

3. The Romantic Warrior

4. Majestic Dance

5. The Magician

6. Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant )

Volume 2

1. The Musician

2. Hello Again

3. Musicmagic

4. So Long Mickey Mouse

5. Do You Ever

6. The Endless Night

Volume 3

1. Opening '77

2. The Endless Night

3. Chick Corea: Spoken Intro of the Musicians

4. The Musician

Volume 4

1. Stanley Clarke: Spoken Intro to Hello Again / So Long Mickey Mouse

2. Hello Again

3. So Long Mickey Mouse

4. Musicmagic

Volume 5

1. Come Rain or Come Shine

2. Stanley Clarke: Spoken Intro to Serenade

3. Serenade

4. Chick Corea: Spoken Intro To The Moorish Warrior and Spanish Princess

5. The Moorish Warrior and Spanish Princess

6. Stanley's Introduction

7. Chick's Piano Solo

8. Spanish Fantasy

9. On Green Dolphin Street

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