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 ...

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

“I have never experienced anything like that. It was like piano strings, and it was so far off the neck”: Lee Ritenour on the time BB King invited him to play Lucille and the guitar made him work for ...

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.

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.

The protean guitarist Lee Ritenour was plucking and strumming even before his got his first real instrument at 8. He was one of those music-mad kids who made guitars out of broomsticks, nails and ...

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By coincidence, Lee and Dave rehearsed it at the home of another famous composer, Antonio Carlos Jobim. "Jobim had been an associate of Villa-Lobos and was influenced by Villa-Lobos," Ritenour said.

With his new CD, 6 String Theory, Lee Ritenour celebrates 50 years as a guitarist. But for Ritenour, that half-century started when he first began learning to play the instrument at age 8. A few ...

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… ...

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.

Guitarist-producer Lee Ritenour has re-arranged a new collection of Motown classics with the release of A Twist of Motown.