Lee Ritenour – Rhythm Sessions (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:42 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records
Lee Ritenour is one of music’s greatest players; his historic career spans five decades and boasts over forty albums. For his latest release, Rhythm Sessions, the legendary guitarist enlists a star-studded cast of veterans and promising newcomers including Chick Corea, Dave Grusin, George Duke, Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and winners from his Annual Six String Theory International Competition. This diverse project features a variety of sounds and grooves, all rooted in jazz, but with hints of funk, R&B, Latin and world music. Focusing on the rhythm sections, Ritenour penned various tracks and selected works by greats including Herbie Hancock and Nick Drake. This multi-layered and multi-textural work is engaging from the first note.
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Lee Ritenour – Dreamcatcher (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:11 minutes | 524 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © The Players Club
On ‘Dreamcatcher’, Lee Ritenour is celebrating 60 years of playing guitar with a first ever ‘solo guitar’ album. The 12-tracks of the album rank amongst the most melodic and tinglingly beautiful in Ritenour’s catalogue.
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Title: Lee Ritenour & Mike Stern with The Freeway Band – Live at The Blue Note Tokyo
Release Date: 2012
Genre: Jazz, Fusion, Crossover Jazz, Guitar Virtuoso, Neo-Bop
Artist: Lee Ritenour – Guitar; Mike Stern – Guitar; Simon Phillips – Drums; John Beasley – Keyboard, Synthesizer; Melvin Davis – Bass.
Production/Label: Ward Records, Inc.
Duration: 01:29:17
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 23998 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Subtitles: Japanese
Size: 21.04 GB
Lee Ritenour and Mike Stern incredible performances was recorded at the Blue Note Tokyo in February 2011. These two great fusion guitarists are augmented by the Freeway Jam Band consisting of keyboardist John Beasley, bassist Melvin Davis & drummer Simon Phillips. Who is the greatest guitar player? Watch it and be the Judge.
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Title: Lee Ritenour – Overtime
Release Date: 2004/2012
Genre: Jazz, Fusion, Smooth Jazz
Artists: Lee Ritenour – guitar, Dave Grusin – Piano, Fender Rhodes, Ivan Lins – Vocals, Fender Rhodes, Patrice Rushen – Piano, Fender Rhodes, Synthesizer, Harvey Mason – Drums, Alex Acuna – Drums, Chris Botti – Trumpet, Ernie Watts – Tenor & Soprano Saxophone, Eric Marienthal – Alto & Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Anthony Jackson – Bass, Melvin Davis – Electric Bass, Dave Carpenter – Acoustic Bass, Barnaby Finch – Keyboards, Oscar Seaton – Drums, Kenya Hathaway – Vocals, Grady Harrell – Vocals, Steve Forman – Percussion.
Production/Label: Eagle Rock Entertainment
Duration: 02:32:41
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 24978 kbps 1920*1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio #1: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 2428 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
Audio #2: English LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Size: 38.83 GB
Lee Ritenour is one of the world’s most renowned jazz guitarists. Initially performing and recording as a sideman with the likes of The Mamas And The Papas, Tony Bennett, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd and Dizzy Gillespie, since 1976 he has been a major solo artist with over 30 albums to his credit. Overtime was filmed in high definition in Enterprise Studios, Burbank in front of a small audience and is a career retrospective of this extraordinary guitarist in which he is accompanied by some of his many collaborators down the years. The concert is split into four distinct sections. The program starts with acoustic jazz and then moves into Brazilian music, followed by Lee’s early fusion music and concludes with a set of his most popular tracks from more recent albums. Interviews with the participants are interspersed between the live performances.
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Lee Ritenour – A Twist Of Rit (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 1:10:27 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Source: HDTracks | @ Concord Records
A Twist of Rit is Lee Ritenour’s new 2015 Concord Records release. A star-studded band performs a number of new compositions combining with fresh, “twisted” versions of some of his earliest funky, fusion material from the 70s and early 80s. Combining some of the hottest rhythm players out there, including Ron Bruner Jr., Chris Coleman, Dave Weckl, Melvin Davis, Paulinho Da Costa, Michael Thompson, John Beasley, Patrice Rushen, and Dave Grusin with a five piece Horn Section and Ernie Watts on tenor sax, A Twist of Rit will make for one of his most special releases to date. (more…)
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