The album ends with three originals, starting with "Stone Cool, followed by "Motherland and "4 ½ Storms. Ritenour is in perfect form throughout, although the guest musicians and vocalists are more out ...

Lee Ritenour is a musical talent who approaches jazz as an artist does a canvas. He takes time to explore colorful arrangements within each song he records mixing various degrees of fusion, rock, ...

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.

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

As Ritenour returns with Dave Grusin and a record celebrating the music of Brasil, the jazz fusion maestro and session legend tells us why we should expect the unexpected at his shows When you ...

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… ...

Lee Ritenour is a Los Angeles guitar archetype. His recording session and touring career dates to the late 1960s and includes dates with the Mamas and the Papas, Lena Horne and Tony Bennett.

Though popular fusion guitarist Lee Ritenour has 18 previous solo albums to his credit and has appeared on literally hundreds of other records, his new album, ”Stolen Moments,” is his first to ...

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 ...

Grammy-winning jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour gets a little help from his friends, namely some of the world's greatest guitar players, on his new album, "6 String Theory." Lee's all-star showcase is ...

In a career that spans five decades and more than 40 albums, guitarist Lee Ritenour has developed a unique balance between the wisdom of experience and the enthusiasm of youth.

Guitarist Lee Ritenour’s interests and abilities are so broad, he has to limit himself when he sits down to compose. Sometimes he’ll begin like many writers, by working from musical ideas ...