”There was another side of me that wanted to come out. I`ve done so many albums that have had so many different kinds of crossover music. I`ve done fusion, funk, Brazilian music. A lot of my … ...

Ed Gordon talks with smooth jazz and soul guitarist Lee Ritenour about his latest career-retrospective album, Overtime. Grammy Award-winning guitarist Lee Ritenour has made a career of ...

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… ...

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. “I’ve been a moving target my ...

Friends and musical partners since the '70s, guitarist Lee Ritenour and pianist Dave Grusin continue their collaboration on Brasil, thanks to Ritenour's Brazilian wife Carmen, who was influential in ...

I had performed with my band and opened for him. I forget where this was. After my performance he went on, and he was on his encore, and he put his guitar down on the stand and he was just singing. He ...

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 ...

It's not the first time Lee and Dave have worked together. In fact, they've been collaborating for more than two decades, from the music for the 1970s' television series "Baretta" to their ...

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 ...