★★★★★
Rhythm Sessions, Lee Ritenour's latest project, follows the pattern that the legendary guitarist took on 2010's 6 String Theory. Ritenour brings together an all-star list of instrumentalists and vocalists, as well as rising artists who won Ritenour's instrumental competition. Proud papa Ritenour also shares the spot light with his son, drummer Wesley Ritenour on one of the album's tracks. The resulting record represents the best of what can happen when a cast of elite musicians comes together...
- www.soultracks.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Fusion, lest we forget, spawned both new age and smooth jazz. Guitarist Lee Ritenour's Rhythm Sessions is proof. Alongside its ample fusion credentials (including two dozen accomplished players, among them Marcus Miller and Stanley Clarke), it's loaded with the glossy production and vampy lite-funk one expects to hear while on hold. Despite this, Rhythm Sessions is a remarkably winning album. Melody and harmony are its strengths, thanks in large part to Ritenour's ace guitar playing...
- jazztimes.com
2013-01-08
★★★★★
Lee Ritenour is probably right to call the guitar the world's most popular musical instrument. It also wouldn't be a stretch to say that the guitar is the world's most misunderstood instrument. Rock music has a lot to do with the guitar being so misunderstood. Genres like classical, Latin, blues, jazz, folk and country all gave the world some wonderful guitar players. Yet when most people think about the guitar - and especially the electric guitar - one genre comes to mind: rock 'n roll...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Track Listing: Lay It Down; Am I Wrong; L.P. (for Les Paul); Give Me One Reason; "68"; In Your Dreams; My One and Only Love; Moon River; Why I Sing the Blues;] Daddy Longlegs; Shape of My Heart; Drifting; Freeway Jam; Fives; Caprice, Op. 20, No. 2 and 7...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-09-14
★★★★★
Capturing the sensuality of Marvin Gaye, the smoothness of Smokey Robinson and the sheer genius of Stevie Wonder, along with other major Motown greats, guitarist-producer Lee Ritenour brings together stellar artists George Benson, Dave Grusin, Bob James, Gerald Albright, Richard Elliot, Chris Botti, Ray Parker, Jr., Ricky Lawson, Nathan East, Greg Phillinganes and Russell Ferrante.Ritenour has a reputation as one of the most skilled and most versatile guitarists in the industry today...
- www.jazzreview.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
In his three decades as a solo artist, guitarist Lee Ritenour has covered a lot of territory. While cranking out one excellent album after another as a frontman, he's also found time to sit in as a guest with other artists and even spent a few years as a member of the supergroup, Fourplay. Among those he has recorded or performed with are Maynard Ferguson, David Sanborn, the Brothers Johnson (remember "Strawberry Letter # 23 ...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Veteran guitarist Lee Ritenour surveys his wide-ranging career on the live album OverTime, his debut release on Peak, which is co-headed by his former GRP labelmate, guitarist and Rippingtons leader Russ Freeman. Ritenour's career has encompassed contemporary and traditional jazz, Brazilian influences and pop elements, and all are well represented on this album...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Studio musicians continue to put out their own albums, and some of us feel compelled to extrapolate a measure of artistic worth from these occasionally seductive but lightweight displays of the latest instrumental styles that might be loosely defined as "eclecti-funk...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
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