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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. ... “First Course,” back in 1975.
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… ...
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 ...
Lee Ritenour: This project, Overtime, is really a two-fold project. The CD is derived from the DVD, and it was primarily a DVD project initially. ... First Course (Epic, 1976) Photo Credit Colour ...
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 ... Ritenour says experience BB King’s setup first hand made him appreciate the ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...