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mooch aka dan
Junior Member
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 Posted - 08/23/2005 : 5:24:51 PM
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I want to listen to some stuff by this band, as I love Al Di Meola's solo stuff but have no idea where to start!
Can anyone make any suggestions for cds to get first?
Thanks!!
Dan :) |
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harmolodic
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - 08/23/2005 : 9:43:49 PM
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Romantic Warrior is probably the best known and a good starting point.
Hymn of the 7th Galaxy (with Bill Connors on guitar) is my personal favorite. (Louder guitar!)
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Meerkat
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 08/24/2005 : 04:05:51 AM
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"Where Have I Known You Before" was Al's first recording with the band....at the tender age of 18 (or 19). It's a good record but I have to go with "Romantic Warrior" as being his best showing in RTF.
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bj
Senior Member
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Posted - 08/24/2005 : 06:39:21 AM
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I started with Romantic Warrior - a fantastic album. At the time i began listening to it (early last year), I had been listening to a lot of Weather Report, and I didn't seem to get RTF quite as much as i did with WR. But i absolutely love them now.
My recommendation is to start at either "Where Have I Known You Before?" or "Romantic Warrior" - both incredible albums.
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wdent
Senior Member
USA
3979 Posts |
Posted - 08/24/2005 : 08:14:36 AM
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Also, whether considered more of a Chick Corea record vs. a Return to Forever record (although many of the same personel from RTF are on this record), "Leprechaun" is one of my favorite all time records from this era. Steve Gadd's drumming is phenomenol and Gayle Moran's vocals are literally out of this world. Every tune is priceless and the melodic invention coupled with the technical complexity of these compositions put this Chick effort way out in front of most anything which came out that year (1976). The music still very much holds up. YOU CANNOT GO WRONG BY PURCHASING THIS ONE!
Jaco: You know you've got that tape recorder on Duke Ellington's book!
Interviewer: Which book is that?
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Meerkat
Senior Member
USA
2322 Posts |
Posted - 08/24/2005 : 10:40:02 AM
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I would also like to acknowledge "No Mystery", the album between "Where Have I Known You ..." and "Romantic Warrior". The title tune and a few others are great pieces of music and the playing is no less than outstanding. You can't go wrong with ANY of these albums. Straying from the Al DiMeola theme (and leaning toward Chick Corea) I have to agree with Wd that "The Leprechaun" is an amazing album. Incredible interpretation of simply superior music. I also have to acknowledge "Friends" as a great tunes/performance package.....Back to Al.....He has some terrific DVDs available of his more recent projects. It seems like he's found a great niche for his playing AND writing and his band configurations go beyond the standard rhythm section formula.
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wdent
Senior Member
USA
3979 Posts |
Posted - 08/24/2005 : 3:48:42 PM
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Now you've gone and done it.....I HAD to get a couple of Lenny White cd's from those by-gone days and one by Jan Hammer.....I am back into fusion music (Jaco, Joe, Wayne....please forgive me for the use of the word "fusion".....as Jaco said...."I PLAY MUUUUUU SSSSIC!"
Jaco: You know you've got that tape recorder on Duke Ellington's book!
Interviewer: Which book is that?
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bassplayer142
Senior Member
USA
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mooch aka dan
Junior Member
348 Posts |
Posted - 08/29/2005 : 1:50:16 PM
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Thanks for the replies people! I have just returned from a holiday in Rome with some spare spending money so I shall let you know which cds I decide to get and what I think of them soon.
Thanks again!
DAN :) |
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theeereheis
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - 08/29/2005 : 4:00:17 PM
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| i must say "romantic warior" is one of my favorite albums. Chic take ya away. |
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bassplayer142
Senior Member
USA
2234 Posts |
Posted - 09/16/2005 : 2:19:38 PM
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Just thinking about how I would DIE if they reunited for a tour. 
You fake the funk, your nose has got to grow! |
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bassplayer142
Senior Member
USA
2234 Posts |
Posted - 09/16/2005 : 2:24:28 PM
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Also did Return To Forever release any other tunes that and like On Green Dolphin Street. Just straight up jazzy with walking bass, solos etc?
You fake the funk, your nose has got to grow! |
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Meerkat
Senior Member
USA
2322 Posts |
Posted - 09/16/2005 : 3:13:03 PM
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B142, The closest thing I can think of in that vein is a DVD Chick, Lenny and Stanley did with saxophonist Joe Henderson. It's called "A Very Special Concert" and provides, not only a good chance to see Stanley play Upright, but, check out how well these guys inter-acted as an acoustic rhythm section.
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bj
Senior Member
1233 Posts |
Posted - 09/17/2005 : 12:04:12 AM
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RTF Released a 4-LP live album in 1978 called "Live: The Complete Concert" - now reissued as a 2 cd set (a bit hard to find though). It features the RTF Big Band group as heard on "Musicmagic" (no Lenny or Al). On the first disc, there are the Big Band pieces and on the second disc, there are some quieter more straight ahead jazz pieces played as a quartet or duet (Chick and Stanley, with Joe Farrell and Gerry Brown), one of which is "On Green Dolphin Street".
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bj
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bassplayer142
Senior Member
USA
2234 Posts |
Posted - 09/17/2005 : 02:05:13 AM
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Thanks ya'll
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