GORDON: Lee Ritenour's new CD is called "Overtime." He's also starting a tour this summer, and look for a DVD with the music from "Overtime." It will be released on June 23rd.

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 f ...

The legendary guitarist is looking for new talent. OVER the past 50 years, contemporary jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour has enjoyed an eclectic career with multiple accolades but his current mission ...

Guitarist Lee Ritenour described the musical relationship between himself and pianist/ composer Dave Grusin as being “as comfortable as old slippers”. It was Grusin who saw the potential of ...

He earned the nickname “Captain Fingers” during his early days as a session player, traveling from gig to gig with a collection of 20 guitars, including his signature Gibson L-5 and ES-335 models.

Ritenour began his solo career in 1975 at the age of 23. Now 30 years, more than 30 recordings and some 3,000-plus performances later, he's still cooking. Dubbed early in his career as Captain Fingers ...

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… ...

You'd think at 16 years old, playing a session with the Mamas & the Papas back in the swinging sixties (and dubbed "Captain Fingers" for manual dexterity on the guitar) would have gone to Lee ...

American Grammy award winning jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour will be performing in Israel for the first time on May 31 at Tel Aviv’s Reading 3. Known to fans as “Captain Fingers” for his ...

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 ...