Thursday, July 31, 2008

First Course - 1976, Epic The 1st Album - Lee Ritenour



First Course - 1976, Epic The 1st Album - Lee Ritenour

Songs
  • A Little Bit Of This And A Little Bit Of That mp3 | Windows Media
  • Sweet Syncopation
  • Theme From 'Three Days Of The Condor'
  • Fatback
  • Memories Past
  • Caterpiller
  • Canticle For The Universe
  • Wild Rice
  • Ohla Maria (amparo)


Musicians

    Lee Ritenour — synthesizer, electric guitar, vocals, classical guitar

    Bill Dickinson, Louis Johnson, Chuck Rainey — bass

    Chuck Findley — trumpet

    Dave Green, Ian Underwood — synthesizer

    Ed Greene, Harvey Mason, Sr. — drums

    Dave Grusin — organ, synthesizer, piano, clavinet

    Larry Nash, Michael Omartian, Jerry Peters, Patrice Rushen — keyboards, clavinet

    Jerome Richardson — saxophone (baritone)

    Frank Rosolino — trombone

    Tom Scott — saxophone (tenor), lyricon

    Jerry Steinholtz — percussion, conga

    Ernie Watts — saxophone (tenor)

Release Year - 1976 Label - Epic Catalog# - EK 46114 Recorded @ The Sound Labs Produced by Skip Drinkwater for Zembu Productions, Inc.





First Course is the first studio album released by jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour. The album was released in 1976 on LP by the label Epic Records. It was re-released on CD by Sony Records in 1990.

The album was made at the time that Ritenour was still a session musician, perhaps considered the best of the time in Los Angeles, California next to Larry Carlton. He drafted friends and peers from Dante's and the Baked Potato club in Studio City, Los Angeles, California to record this "artifact of the early L.A. jazz/funk sound" Ritenour was worried about creating the album, as he has stated "I was still thinking as a "studio musician", and I was very worried about having my own identity on the guitar, because up until that time my job as a studio musician had been to be a "chameleon" ... it wasn’t until several years later that I felt more comfortable with who I was stylistically."

Financially, there were issues with the album, since the "sound perplexed studio executives" who were mainly looking for the next Bitches Brew or Return to Forever. This was melodic rhythm and blues-based jazz that didn't find a home until new wave-type radio stations became mainstream over a decade later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Course
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Smoke N' Mirrors - 2006, Peak Records


Smoke N' Mirrors - 2006, Peak Records


Songs Musicians
  • Abraham Laboriel
  • Alex Acuna
  • Alberto Lopez
  • Brian Bromberg
  • Daniel Jobim
  • Danilo Caymmi
  • Dave Grusin
  • Erik Pilani
  • John Patitucci
  • Joyce
  • Mea Noite
  • Melvin Davis3
  • Oscar Seaton
  • Patrice Rushen
  • Paulinho Da Costa
  • Richard Bona
  • Satnam Ramgotra
  • Sheila E.
  • Steve Tavaliogne
  • Tita Lima
  • Vinnie Colaiuta
  • Wesley Ritenour
  • Zamajobe
Release Year - 2006 Label - Peak Records Catalog# - PKD-30018-2 Recorded @ Sunset Sound and Starlight Studios
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The Very Best Of Lee Ritenour


The Very Best Of Lee Ritenour


Songs Musicians Release Year - 2003
Label - GRP
Catalog# - 314-589-281-2
Recorded @ Various
Produced by Various
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Reza Saleh - outstanding BASS player


Reza Saleh is an outstanding bass player and a multi-instrumentalist from Jakarta Indonesia, with a great passion for music. He was the winner of best New Solo Smooth Jazz Artist at the 2006 Long Beach Jazz Festival (video). He has been hired to open for the likes of Peter White, Jeff Gollub, Richard Elliot, Gerald Albright, and The Brand New Heavies. (video). He has been artist of the month from many pod-cast shows around the world. Sponsored by GHS strings, he has been a demonstrator at the NAMM show for the last two years for such products as DeMars Guitars and Accugroove bass amplifiers.

Reza was raised in a very musical family. His extreme interest in music has existed since witnessing a piano jam session between Emir Saleh (brother) and the late Usmawi Saleh (father). Usmawi always stressed to Reza the importance of music being a complete language within itself, and that while jamming, communication is a key focus and goal. Next, Reza was blown away when he saw an Earth Wind and Fire concert video because of how many people playing different instruments could hold that communication while onstage together. It was then that he committed himself to perfecting his voice in the phenomenal language of music.

Reza has lived and breathed through his BB 3000S bass since the age of twelve, there were times that he could barely reach all the frets, and at times he experienced arm and shoulder pain due to a frenetic practice routine. He has remained loyal to his Yamaha bass to this day.


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