Search - Artist/Band: Lee Ritenour

• Name: Lee Ritenour
• Birthday: 01/11/1952
• Birth Place: Hollywood, CA
• Decades Active: 1960,1970,1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Crossover Jazz, Jazz-Pop, Instrumental Pop, Guitar Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Smooth Jazz
• Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Calm/Peaceful, Elegant, Gentle, Laid-Back/Mellow, Refined/Mannered, Reserved, Restrained, Soothing, Sophisticated, Earnest, Intimate, Reflective

Title	Release
Best	09/22/2009
Smoke 'N' Mirrors	08/22/2006
World of Brazil WA	08/30/2005
Overtime WA	06/07/2005
Friendship/The Captain's Journey WA	04/19/2005
Rio/On the Line	04/19/2005
Twist of Motown WA	09/08/2003
The Very Best of Lee Ritenour	05/06/2003
Rit's House WA	2002
Best of New Best One WA	09/22/1999
This Is Love	1998
Alive in L.A.	07/01/1997
A Twist of Jobim	03/11/1997
The Best of Lee Ritenour	06/13/1995
Larry & Lee	1995
Wes Bound	1992
Collection WA	07/03/1991
Stolen Moments	1990
Color Rit	03/1989
Festival	05/1988
Portrait	01/1987
Earth Run WA	04/1986
Rit	1985
Harlequin	11/1984
Banded Together WA	1984
On the Line	03/1983
Rit, Vol. 2	1982
Feel the Night	1979
Rio WA	1979
Friendship WA	12/13/1978
The Captain's Journey WA	1978
Lee Ritenour and His Gentle Thoughts WA	05/1977
Captain Fingers	1977
First Course	1976

Lee Ritenour has long been the perfect studio musician, one who can melt into the background without making any impact. While he possesses impressive technique, Ritenour has mostly played instrumental pop throughout his career, sometimes with a Brazilian flavor. His few jazz efforts have found him essentially imitating Wes Montgomery, but despite that he has been consistently popular since the mid-'70s. After touring with Sergio Mendes' Brasil '77 in 1973, Ritenour became a very busy studio guitarist in Los Angeles, taking time off for occasional tours with his groups and in the mid-'90s with Bob James in Fourplay. He also recorded many albums as a leader including Portraits (1987), Wes Bound (1992), Larry & Lee with Larry Carlton (1994), This is Love (1997), Overtime (2005) and Smoke 'N' Mirrors (2006). ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide