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.

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