Return to Forever tours for the first time since the '70s
By Siddhartha Mitter
Boston Globe Correspondent / May 18, 2008
A ritual of summer takes on a jazz flavoring this year, as perhaps the season's most anticipated reunion tour is the one featuring the classic lineup of Return to Forever, one of the most iconic jazz units of the '70s.
The four-man electric band led by pianist Chick Corea was responsible for some of the best-regarded, and in many ways still remarkably fresh, statements of the jazz-rock fusion popular at the time, earning a Grammy in 1975 for the album "No Mystery," and a following among a broad swath of the baby boom generation that remains unabated.
It's mostly that audience that figures to fill the midsize venues on the band's extensive reunion journey, which begins later this month in Austin, Texas, and continues across North America and Europe into August, including a penultimate stop in Boston at Bank of America Pavilion Aug. 6.
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