Crystal Silence

"Crystal Silence" is the second track on the 1972 ECM album Return to Forever, recorded on February 2 and 3, 1972 at A & R Studios in New York with Manfred Eicher producing. Chick Corea wrote it and plays Fender Rhodes, with Joe Farrell on flute and soprano saxophone, Stanley Clarke on electric bass, Airto Moreira on drums and percussion and Flora Purim on vocals and percussion. It was never a single. Wikipedia times it at 6:59 and ECM at 6:55.

Corea returned to the piece nine months later as a duet with vibraphonist Gary Burton, recorded in Oslo on November 6, 1972 and released by ECM in April 1973 as the album Crystal Silence; MusicBrainz lists more than twenty performers who have recorded it, Stan Getz among them. The upload in the hypersongs web is the 1972 quintet recording.