Lee Ritenour - A Twist Of Rit (Behind The Scenes)
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2015
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GRAMMY-WINNING GUITARIST LEE RITENOUR SET TO RELEASE A TWIST OF RIT
Featuring John Beasley, Dave Grusin, Patrice Rushen, Ernie Watts, Melvin Lee Davis, Michael Thompson, Wah Wah Watson, David T. Walker, Makoto Ozone, Tom Kennedy, Dave Weckl, Paulinho Da Costa, Ronald Bruner Jr., Chris Coleman, Bob Sheppard and Rashawn Ross
“The concept for A Twist of Rit combines new material and tunes selected from earlier albums. We twisted, flipped and reconstructed those songs with a twelve-piece band. Several of the songs are from my very first album, First Course, recorded in 1975 and the Rit album in 1980.” - Lee Ritenour
GRAMMY-winning, guitarist Lee Ritenour, AKA Captain Fingers, has a wide-ranging array of material to revive, as evidenced by A Twist of Rit. 2015 commemorates 40 years since his debut recording, First Course, on Epic Records. A Twist of Rit, set for release on August 21, 2015 via Concord Records, is a magnificent follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2012 album Rhythm Sessions.
A Twist of Rit spotlights Ritenour with several long-time musical cohorts, including keyboardists John Beasley, Dave Grusin and Patrice Rushen; saxophonist Ernie Watts; bassists Melvin Lee Davis, Tom Kennedy and Dave Weckl; and percussionist Paulinho Da Costa. That core group is augmented by drummers Ronald Bruner Jr. and Chris Coleman, along with Bob Sheppard on saxophone and Rashawn Ross playing flugelhorn. Joining Ritenour for the first time are guitarists Michael Thompson, Wah Wah Watson and David T. Walker, plus Japanese pianist Makoto Ozone.
A Twist of Rit features Ritenour’s soaring guitar lines with 12 of his compositions ranging from the funky fusion and sophisticated jazz that he has become so well known for. All of the material was captured by his longtime GRAMMY Award-winning engineer Don Murray and the tracks were recorded with everyone performing together, old-school, but with modern, state-of-the-art recording techniques. Another album highlight will be the debut of Hungarian guitarist Tony Pusztai, Grand Prize Winner of Ritenour’s biennial, 2014 Six String Theory Competition. Pusztai was selected from over 500 entries and 72 participating countries.
Definitely a HOF player! One of the all time greats. 👍👍
LONG LIVE CAPTAIN FINGERS ! Bottom Line - 1977 He left his mark on my SOUL of music. Love ya Fingers. Joey
One of the greatest guitar players of all time...a total inspiration in my life.And a super human being
Top shelf here..... thank you Lee......
What a great milestone recording for Lee Rit !! "Well Done" to an artist who has been setting the mark for all of us to follow for a long time. We celebrate with you Lee and wishing you many more years of great music for the world to hear !
So inspiring to witness Lee's unabated passion for music and of course, the guitar! It shows in his smile and it's contagious!
I have followed Lee since early 80s and consider him a great musician. I m a lead guitar player myself and have learned from him very much ......!
Lee Ritenour has many great songs and album but I think his albums are getting better with time specially the last three wow. IMO its been great to bring all these stellar musicians and other guitar players to record with him
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He performed the guitar solo on Brother's Johnsons' Strawberry Letter 23...
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