After 43 albums, 3,000 recording sessions and nearly 53 years in the music business, the key to jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour’s success is never sitting still.

Known as 'Captain Fingers' to his many fans, guitar hero Ritenour may have won the affections of the 'schmoov' jazz idiom, but his fleet fingered workouts are far hipper than any of his closest FM ...

Ed Gordon talks with smooth jazz and soul guitarist Lee Ritenour about his latest career-retrospective album, Overtime.

OVER the past 50 years, contemporary jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour has enjoyed an eclectic career with multiple accolades but his current mission is to nurture young talent.

Either that or there’s a brand new superhero battling ratings on Cartoon Network. Guitarist Lee “Captain Fingers” Ritenour is considered by his most loyal fans as a modern day jazz superhero.

Captain Fingers, or Rit as Ritenour is often referred to, said: “We’re going to play a wide range of music from our Brazilian stuff to some jazzier and funkier sounds covering about four ...

Dubbed early in his career as Captain Fingers, Rit is still the commanding officer of contemporary jazz guitar. Visit Lee Ritenour on the web. Selected discography as a leader: Overtime (Peak, 2005) ...

With a deep admiration for Wes Montgomery and a penchant for Brazilian music, Lee Ritenour is one of the most prolific guitarists in modern jazz. Whether as a front man, sideman or member of a group, ...

Electric-guitar virtuoso Lee Ritenour was 15 when Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton made electric-guitar players the undisputed front men of popular music. That sent a generation of youths into the gar… ...

For the Blues Alley shows, Ritenour and his band perform from a long list of songs that span from the late 1970s to 2011. This includes his latest recording, “Lee Ritenour’s 6 String Theory ...

In the spring of ‘93 when Lee Ritenour’s CD, Wes Bound, came out, WBRH was giving a lot of airplay to “A Little Bumpin’” — it was my first exposure to the work of a man that had been ...

Lee Ritenour, noted jazz artist and session musician who has been one of the leaders in his field since the early ’70s, is performing at StageOne at Fairfield Theatre Company on Wednesday, April 1.