Search results for "Lenny White"

Lenny White: Heavy Metal Monster (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music June 03, 08

Drummer Lenny White's fortuitous inclusion in the fusion supergroup Return to Forever will always be his most famous ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RETURN TO FOREVER

As we write, Return to Forever, the pioneering fusion group from the seventies, has reunited for an extensive world...

Lenny White: Mating Drive (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 03, 08

This performance was recorded while Lenny White was still an active member of Return to Forever. "Mating Drive" is an...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RETURN TO FOREVER

As we write, Return to Forever, the pioneering fusion group from the seventies, has reunited for an extensive world...

Return to Forever: Sorceress (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music October 25, 08

Romantic Warrior included compositions from all the RTF players. "Sorceress" was Lenny White's contribution. White ce...

Return to Forever featuring Chick Corea: The Game Maker (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 29, 09

Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy marked the beginning of Return to Forever's rise in the jazz-rock fusion pecking order. Th...

Jaco Pastorius: (Used to be a) Cha-Cha (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music June 16, 09

I think it might be safe to say that Jaco Pastorius turned jazz music on its collective head with the release of his ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JACO PASTORIUS

Jaco Pastorius (1951-1987) was one of the most electrifying performers in the history of jazz music. Although his...

Return to Forever featuring Chick Corea: After the Cosmic Rain (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music February 14, 08

The Return to Forever group that recorded Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy was Chick Corea's second edition of that unit. R...

Return to Forever featuring Chick Corea: No Mystery (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music February 13, 08

The better fusion bands would always take a few moments or so on their records or in concert to show off their pure v...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RETURN TO FOREVER

As we write, Return to Forever, the pioneering fusion group from the seventies, has reunited for an extensive world...

Freddie Hubbard: Red Clay (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music April 11, 08

This album was a new direction for Freddie Hubbard. It starts with a rubato section where once again Freddie is his N...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RANDY BRECKER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL FREDDIE HUBBARD TRACKS

Note: During the course of a career that spanned more than a half century, Freddie Hubbard made his mark as one of th...

Return to Forever: Vulcan Worlds (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music June 06, 08

Where Have I Known You Before marked the most significant change in Corea's Return to Forever group. It was on this a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RETURN TO FOREVER

As we write, Return to Forever, the pioneering fusion group from the seventies, has reunited for an extensive world...

Return to Forever: Medieval Overture (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music October 25, 08

This was Return to Forever's most famous lineup's first and last Columbia record. It also happened to be the best sel...

Return to Forever: Celebration Suite (Parts I & II) (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 25, 08

Most Return to Forever fans see Romantic Warrior as the band's most enjoyable album. (Please, I said most, not all.) ...

Freddie Hubbard: The Intrepid Fox (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music February 07, 09

Though this album is known for its funky, groove-laden title track, the other songs deserve just as much attention an...

Return to Forever featuring Chick Corea: Excerpt from the First Movement of Heavy Metal (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music February 13, 08

On "Excerpt from the First Movement of Heavy Metal" Corea's keyboard introduction is one of high drama worthy of any ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RETURN TO FOREVER

As we write, Return to Forever, the pioneering fusion group from the seventies, has reunited for an extensive world...

Stanley Clarke: Hello Jeff (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music June 10, 08

Jazz fusion received quite a boost when rock star guitarist Jeff Beck decided to enter the fray. Though Beck was not ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RETURN TO FOREVER

As we write, Return to Forever, the pioneering fusion group from the seventies, has reunited for an extensive world...

Chick Corea: Compadres (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 11, 08

"Compadres" is the only recorded performance of the famous Return to Forever lineup of Corea, Clarke, Di Meola and Wh...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RETURN TO FOREVER

As we write, Return to Forever, the pioneering fusion group from the seventies, has reunited for an extensive world...

Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 05, 08

We are all familiar with revolutions in music. But the most controversial moves come when an artist seems in rebelli...

Jaco Pastorius: Continuum (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 08, 08

This was Jaco Pastorius's first record as leader. His phenomenal talent was already well known inside the fusion comm...

Stanley Clarke (with Hiromi): Sakura Sakura (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 02, 09

Fusion-bass-meister Stanley Clarke settles into an acoustic trio format for his 2009 Jazz in the Garden CD, but here'...

Freddie Hubbard: Red Clay (1970) (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

Jazz purists prefer to remember Hubbard for his Art Blakey sideman days or his Blue Note performances, but his work f...

Ron Carter: Tamalpais (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 12, 08

Ron Carter and this great ensemble assay Oscar Pettiford's composition with the kind of élan and impeccable verve we'...

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