Chick Corea : jazz piano player

In the early 1970s Corea took a deep stylistic turn from avant garde playing to a crossover swing fusion method that integrated Latin swing elements with original piano chords. He based Return to Forever in 1971. This band had a fusion sound and even though it relied on electrical devices instrumentation it drew more on Brazilian and Spanish-American melodious methods than on rock music.On its first two notes, Return to Forever boasted Flora Purim's vocals, the Fender Rhodes electric driven piano, and Joe Farrell's flute and soprano saxophone. Airto Moreira performed drums. Corea's compositions for this assembly often had a Brazilian tinge. In 1972 Corea performed numerous of the early Return to Forever pieces of music in a assembly he put simultaneously for Stan Getz. This assembly, with Stanley Clarke on bass and Tony Williams on percussion devices, noted the Columbia mark album Captain Marvel under Getz's name.

In the next year the band shifted more in the main heading of rock melodies leveraged by the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Only Clarke stayed from the group's first lineup; Bill Connors performed electric driven guitar and Lenny White performed drums. No one restored vocalist Purim. (Briefly, in 1977, Corea's wife, Gayle Moran, assisted as vocalist in the band.) In 1974 Al Di Meola connected the band, restoring Connors. In this second type of Return to Forever, Corea expanded the use of synthesizers, especially Moogs. The assembly issued its last studio record in 1977. Thereafter, Corea concentrated on solo projects.

Corea's composition "Spain" first emerged on the 1972 Return to Forever album Light as a Feather. This is likely his most well liked part, and it has been noted by a kind of creative individuals (notably Al Jarreau). There are furthermore a kind of later recordings by Corea himself in diverse contexts, encompassing an placement for piano and symphony ensemble that emerged in 1999, and a collaborative piano and voice-as-instrument placement with Bobby McFerrin on the 1992 album Play. Corea generally presents "Spain" with a prelude founded on Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez (1940), which previous obtained a swing orchestration on Miles Davis' and Gil Evans' "Sketches of Spain".