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1975 studio album by Return to Forever

No Mystery

Studio album by Return to Forever

Released

February 1975

Recorded

January 1975

Studio

Record Plant Studios, New York City

Genre

Jazz fusion

Length

42:57

Label

Polydor

Producer

Chick Corea, Shelly Yakus

Return to Forever chronology

Where Have I Known You Before
(1974)

No Mystery
(1975)

Romantic Warrior
(1976)

Chick Corea chronology

Where Have I Known You Before
(1974)

No Mystery
(1975)

Circling In
(1975)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Sputnikmusic
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

No Mystery (1975) is a studio album by jazz-rock fusion band Return to Forever, and the second featuring the quartet of Chick Corea, guitarist Al Di Meola, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White.

Production

All members of the group contributed compositions to this album. Side 1 contains heavily funk-influenced material composed by each member of the group, whereas Side 2 is filled by Chick Corea compositions. Chick Corea won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group Grammy Award in 1975 for this album.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Dayride"	Stanley Clarke	3:25
2.	"Jungle Waterfall"	Chick Corea, Clarke	3:03
3.	"Flight of the Newborn"	Al Di Meola	7:23
4.	"Sofistifunk"	Lenny White	3:51
5.	"Excerpt from the First Movement of Heavy Metal"	Corea, Clarke, White, Di Meola	2:45

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"No Mystery"	Corea	6:10
7.	"Interplay"	Corea, Clarke	2:15
8.	"Celebration Suite, part I"	Corea	8:27
9.	"Celebration Suite, part II"	Corea	5:32
Total length:			42:57

Personnel

Return to Forever

Chick Corea – acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano, Hohner clavinet, Yamaha electric organ, synthesizers (ARP Odyssey, Minimoog), snare drum, marimba, vocals
Al Di Meola – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Stanley Clarke – electric bass, acoustic bass, Yamaha electric organ, synthesizer, vocals
Lenny White – drums, percussion, congas, marimba

Production

Shelly Yakus – engineer
Tom Rabstenek – mastering
Bill Levy – cover art direction

Chart performance

Year	Chart	Position
1975	Billboard 200	39
1975	Billboard Jazz Albums	7

References

Nastos, Michael G. "Return to Forever - No Mystery (1975) album review | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
Campbell, Hernan M. (3 April 2013). "Return to Forever - No Mystery (1975) album review | Sputnikmusic". sputnikmusic.com. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 50. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ "Return to Forever - No Mystery (1975) | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 27 October 2013.

External links

v t e Return to Forever
Chick Corea Stanley Clarke Lenny White Frank Gambale Jean-Luc Ponty Joe Farrell Airto Moreira Flora Purim Bill Connors Steve Gadd Mingo Lewis Earl Klugh Al Di Meola Gerry Brown Harold Garrett Gayle Moran James E. Pugh John Thomas James Tinsley Ron Moss
Studio albums	Return to Forever Light as a Feather Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy Where Have I Known You Before No Mystery Romantic Warrior Musicmagic
Live albums	Return to Forever Live / ...Live: The Complete Concert Returns The Mothership Returns
Compilations	The Best of Return to Forever (1980) Sony This is Jazz, Vol. 12 (1996) Sony Return to the Seventh Galaxy: The Anthology (1996) Verve Return to Forever: The Anthology (2008) Concord Return to Forever: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (2011) Sony
Videos	Return to Forever: Returns - Live at Montreux (2009)
Related	Captain Marvel (1972) Verve Forever (Corea, Clarke & White) (2011) Concord

v t e Chick Corea
Chick Corea discography
As leader	Tones for Joan's Bones (1968) Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968) Circling In (1975) Is (1969) Sundance (1972) The Song of Singing (1970) A.R.C. (1971) (with Dave Holland & Barry Altschul) The Leprechaun (1976) My Spanish Heart (1976) The Mad Hatter (1978) Secret Agent (1978) Friends (1978) Tap Step (1980) Three Quartets (1981) Trio Music (1982) Touchstone (1982) Again and Again (1983) Summer Night: Live (1987) (with Akoustic Band) Chick Corea Akoustic Band (1989) (with Akoustic Band) Alive (1991) (with Akoustic Band) Seabreeze (1993) (with Gayle Moran & Lionel Hampton) Time Warp (1995) Remembering Bud Powell (1996) Rendezvous in New York (2003) The Ultimate Adventure (2006) Super Trio - Live at the One World Theatre, April 3rd, 2005 (2006) (with Steve Gadd & Christian McBride) Five Peace Band Live (2009) (with John McLaughlin) Further Explorations (2012) The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra (2012) The Vigil (2013) Trilogy (2013) (with Chick Corea Trio) The Musician: Live at The Blue Note Jazz Café (2016) Chinese Butterfly (2017) (with Steve Gadd) Trilogy 2 (2019)(with Chick Corea Trio) Antidote (2019)
Solo piano albums	Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971) Piano Improvisations Vol. 2 (1972) Delphi I (1979) Delphi II & III (1980) Children's Songs (1984) Expressions (1994) Solo Piano: Originals (2000) Solo Piano: Standards (2000) Solo Piano – Portraits (2014) Plays (2020)
Duos	An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert (1978) CoreaHancock (1979) Chick Corea & Lionel Hampton in Concert (1980) Voyage (1984) Play (1992) (with Bobby McFerrin) The Enchantment (2007) (with Béla Fleck) Duet (2008) (with Hiromi Uehara) Orvieto (2010) (with Stefano Bollani) Two (2015)
with Gary Burton	Crystal Silence (1972) Duet (1979) In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979 (1980) Lyric Suite for Sextet (1982) Native Sense - The New Duets (1997) The New Crystal Silence (2008) Hot House (2012)
Circle	Circle 1: Live in Germany Concert (1970) Circle 2: Gathering (1971) Paris Concert (1972) Circling In (1975) Circulus (1978)
with Stanley Clarke	Children of Forever (1973) Journey to Love (1975) Rocks, Pebbles and Sand (1980) Up (2014)
with Miles Davis	Water Babies (1976) Filles de Kilimanjaro (1969) In a Silent Way (1969) Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (2013) Bitches Brew (1970) Bitches Brew Live (2011) Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West (1977) Miles Davis at Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore East (1970) Miles at the Fillmore – Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 (2014) Jack Johnson (a.k.a. A Tribute to Jack Johnson) (1971) Circle in the Round (1979) Live-Evil (1971) On the Corner (1972) Big Fun (1974)
with Chick Corea Elektric Band	The Chick Corea Elektric Band (1986) Light Years (1987) Eye of the Beholder (1988) Inside Out (1990) Beneath the Mask (1991) Elektric Band II: Paint the World (1993) Live from Elario's (The First Gig) (1996) To the Stars (2004) Live in Tokyo 1987 (2017)
with Joe Farrell	Joe Farrell Quartet (1970) Outback (1971) Skate Board Park (1979)
with Stan Getz	Sweet Rain (1967) What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David (1968) Captain Marvel (1972)
with Joe Henderson	Relaxin' at Camarillo (1979) Mirror Mirror (1980) Joe Henderson: Big Band (1997)
with Hubert Laws	The Laws of Jazz (1964) Flute By-Laws (1966) Laws' Cause (1968) Wild Flower (1972) Family (1980) Blanchard: New Earth Sonata (1985)
with Herbie Mann	Herbie Mann Plays The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (1965) Monday Night at the Village Gate (1966) Latin Mann Afro to Bossa to Blues (1965) Standing Ovation at Newport (1965)
with Blue Mitchell	The Thing to Do (1964) Down with It! (1965) Boss Horn (1967)
with Origin	Live at the Blue Note (1998) A Week at The Blue Note (1998) Change (1999) corea.concerto: Spain for Sextet & Orchestra / Piano Concerto No. 1 (1999)
with Return to Forever	Return to Forever (1972) Light as a Feather (1973) Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (1973) Where Have I Known You Before (1974) No Mystery (1975) Romantic Warrior (1976) Musicmagic (1977) Live (1978) Returns (2009) Forever (2011) The Mothership Returns (2012)
with Wayne Shorter	Super Nova (1969) Moto Grosso Feio (1974)
with others	Sonny Stitt: Stitt Goes Latin (1963) Dave Pike: Manhattan Latin (1964) Cal Tjader: Soul Burst (1966) Pete La Roca: Turkish Women at the Bath (1967) Donald Byrd: The Creeper (1981) Eric Kloss: To Hear Is to See! (1969) Eric Kloss: Consciousness! (1970) Larry Coryell: Spaces (1970) Sadao Watanabe: Round Trip (1970) Marion Brown: Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (1970) Richard Davis: The Philosophy of the Spiritual (1971) Rolf Kühn Jazzgroup: Going to the Rainbow (1971) John Surman: Conflagration (1971) Elvin Jones: Merry-Go-Round (1972) Airto Moreira: Free (1972) Anthony Braxton: The Complete Braxton (1973) Richard Davis: With Understanding (1975) Dee Dee Bridgewater: Just Family (1977) Ron Carter: Parade (1979) Gábor Szabó: Femme Fatale (1979) Tete Montoliu: Lunch in L.A. (1980) Chaka Khan et al.: Echoes of an Era (1982) Elektric Band II: Paint the World (1993) Like Minds (1998) (with Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes, Dave Holland) Herbie Hancock: Gershwin's World (1998) Avishai Cohen: Lyla (2003) Miroslav Vitouš: Universal Syncopations (2003) Antonio Sánchez: Migration (2007) Hans Glawischnig: Panorama (2008)
Compilations	Inner Space (1973) The Complete "Is" Sessions (2002) Chick Corea/Herbie Hancock/Keith Jarret/McCoy Tyner (1976) Chick Corea Compact Jazz (1987) Best of Chick Corea (1993) Selected Recordings (2002) Very Best of Chick Corea (2004) Herbie Mann-Chick Corea: The Complete Latin Band Sessions (2007) Electric Chick (2008)
Soundtracks	Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown (1989)

v t e Al Di Meola
Studio albums	Land of the Midnight Sun Elegant Gypsy Casino Splendido Hotel Electric Rendezvous Scenario Cielo e Terra Soaring Through a Dream Tirami Su World Sinfonia Kiss My Axe World Sinfonia II – Heart of the Immigrants Orange and Blue Di Meola Plays Piazzolla The Infinite Desire Winter Nights World Sinfonía III – The Grande Passion Flesh on Flesh Consequence of Chaos Diabolic Inventions and Seduction for Solo Guitar Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody
Live albums	Tour De Force – Live
with Return to Forever	Where Have I Known You Before No Mystery Romantic Warrior Returns
with the Guitar Trio	Friday Night in San Francisco Passion, Grace and Fire The Guitar Trio Saturday Night in San Francisco
with Clarke and Ponty	The Rite of Strings
Guest appearances	Go Live from Paris Go Go Too Hearts and Bones Touchstone Dance of Fire Inspiration – Colors & Reflections Black Utopia Cosmopolitan Life
as producer	Magic Touch
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