Lee Ritenour Background Information
Lee Ritenour (Lee Mack "Captain Fingers" Ritenour is his full name) is a session musician and recording artist. Two of the promotional videos for his songs, "Is It You," and "Mr. Briefcase," are being played during MTV's first hour.
In the 90s, Ritenour was one of the founding members of smooth jazz band Fourplay. Throughout his career, the musician is experimenting with different styles of music. He has often combined elements of blues, rock, funk, pop, and Brazilian music with jazz.
more Now Lee Ritenour plays his signature Model arch top guitar made by Gibson. In 2005, the musician was engaged to Anri, a Japanese singer, whose music works he has been producing for already seven years.
At the beginning of his music career, Lee Ritenour began was adding strong elements of pop to his music (Rit album). He continued with his distorted sound and the pop-oriented music for two albums that followed. Harlequin featured primarily classical acoustic guitar and Brazilian singer and songwriter Ivan Lins. Rio release gave the strongest representation of Ritenour’s Brazilian influences.
Later, the musician’s smooth jazz-influenced Brazilian music came to the forefront with Festival. The album featured his work on nylon-string acoustic guitars. However, shortly after, he completely changed direction again with the straight-ahead jazz Stolen Moments.
Lee Ritenour latest album called Smoke n' Mirrors was released at the end of August 2006.
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