LIGHT AS A FEATHER

Another Return to Forever in which the husband and wife instrumentalist team of Airto Moreira and Flora Purim play a key role in the band's sound, this album shows concrete progress over the debut. The album closer Spain is a much-loved classic, but most of the other tracks on this deserve attention. My favourites are the furiously fast Captain Marvel - the rockiest track on the disc, in my view - and gentle opening composition You're Everything, which is possibly the jazziest. An appreciable and welcome improvement over the debut, Light as a Feather proved that Chick Corea's fusion project was no mere flash in the pan, and set the stage for the group becoming a full band concern rather than a Chick Corea backing group.