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The Mothership Returns is a live two CD/single DVD set by the fusion band Return to Forever. Released 18 June 2012 by Eagle Rock Entertainment, it documents music performed during the 2011 tour, for which Return to Forever was expanded to a quintet with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White and new members Jean-Luc Ponty on violin and Frank Gambale on guitar. The album peaked #6 in the 2012 and 2013 Jazz Album charts.

Track listing:
Disc one
1. “Medieval Overture” (Chick Corea) 6:03
2. “Senor Mouse” (Corea) 12:10
3. “Shadow of Lo/Sorceress” (Lenny White) 16:05
4. “Renaissance” (Jean-Luc Ponty) 19:40
Disc two
1. “After the Cosmic Rain” (Stanley Clarke) 16:52
2. “The Romantic Warrior / Señor Blues” (Corea, Horace Silver) 18:20
3. “Concierto de Aranjuez / Spain” (Corea, Joaquín Rodrigo) 8:12
4. “School Days” (Clarke) 11:24
5. “Beyond the Seventh Galaxy” (Corea) 3:44

Personnel:

Chick Corea – acoustic piano, keyboards
Stanley Clarke – double bass, electric bass
Lenny White – drums
Jean-Luc Ponty – violin
Frank Gambale – acoustic guitar, electric guitar

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Released: June 18, 2012
Recorded: July 12, 2011,
September 13, 2011
Venue: Austin, Texas (September)
Montreux, Switzerland (July)
Length: 112:30
Label: Eagle
Producer: Tim Cavanaugh, Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea, Geoff Kempin, Adam Mason, Bill Rooney, Terry Shand, Lenny White