Dreamcatcher Lee Ritenour

• 1 Dreamcatcher (96kHz) 04:22
• 2 Charleston (96kHz) 04:16
• 3 The Lighthouse 04:55
• 4 Morning Glory Jam (96kHz) 04:28
• 5 Starlight 04:01
• 6 Abbot Kinney (88.2.kHz) 03:13
• 7 Couldn't Help Myself 04:30
• 8 For DG 04:47
• 9 Via Verde 03:14
• 10 Low & Slow 03:25
• 11 Storyteller 02:41
• 12 2020, Pt. 1 04:10
• 13 2020, Pt. 2 03:07
• 14 2020, Pt. 3 01:56
• Total Runtime 53:05

Info for Dreamcatcher

Lee Ritenour feiert 60 Jahre Gitarrenspiel mit einem ersten "Sologitarren"-Album!

Für Lee Ritenour gibt es nicht mehr viele "Erste" zu erreichen. Während seiner schillernden, fünf Jahrzehnte währenden Karriere hat der sagenumwobene Gitarrist aus LA seine Musik bis an die äußersten Grenzen gebracht, sich in jedem Genre engagiert und jede Position am Rock'n'Roll-Firmament besetzt. Er war ein Enfant terrible der 70er-Jahre-Fusion, ein Crossover-Star der 80er-Jahre-Popcharts, ein ehrenamtlicher Vertreter des brasilianischen Jazz und der Finger hinter der 90er-Jahre-Supergroup Fourplay. Zu den Auszeichnungen von Ritenour gehören: 45 Alben,16 Grammy-Nominierungen, Alumnus des Jahres an der USC, Honoree der Los Angeles Jazz Society (2019), sowie Tausende von Sessions mit Legenden wie Frank Sinatra, Pink Floyd, B.B. King, Tony Bennett, u.a.

Und doch, wenn er in den Rückspiegel schaut, gibt der 68-Jährige zu, dass er noch nie eine Platte wie Dreamcatcher gemacht hat. "Die Leute sagen mir seit Jahren: 'Rit, du musst eine Platte für Sologitarre machen'. In der Vergangenheit war ich immer der Band-Mann, der Ensemble-Mann, der Gitarren-Kollaborateur. Das war also das eine Projekt, das ich noch nicht gemacht hatte. Und dieses Jahr wusste ich, dass es Zeit war."

Die 12 Tracks von Dreamcatcher gehören zu den melodischsten und kribbelndsten im Katalog von Ritenour und zeichnen sich durch eklektische Stimmungen aus, indem sie Gobelins mit instrumentaler Gitarre weben. Aber auch hier gibt es eine Kraft und eine Absicht, die auf die dunkleren Umstände anspielen, die zu dieser neuen Platte geführt haben. "Unser Haus und mein Studio in Malibu, Kalifornien, sind 2018 abgebrannt", erinnert er sich. "Etwa 100 meiner Gitarren gingen in dem Feuer hoch, dazu 40 Verstärker, viel Musik, die Geschichte meiner gesamten Karriere, so ziemlich die ganze. Eine Woche nach dem Brand ging ich ins Krankenhaus, was ich vorher noch nie tun musste, um eine Aortenklappe zu operieren. Diese Vorfälle und die Unterstützung durch meine Familie und Freunde flossen also absolut in diese Musik ein. Diese Platte zu machen, war für mich lebensrettend".

“I’ve never done a project like this before and it’s an important missing piece in my guitar history. It was inspiring and it was meant to happen this year, in these times- “After a lifetime of playing the guitar,” he considers, “this project reaffirmed just how much I love the guitar.”

Lee Ritenour

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Lee Ritenour
born Lee Mack Ritenour on January 11, 1952 in Los Angeles, CA, has maintained a delicate balance between the individual creative vision and the group dynamic, since the beginning of his career. He did his first session work in the late ’60s with the Mamas and the Papas, who dubbed him Captain Fingers for demonstrating incredible dexterity while still in his teens. Since his early recordings in the 1970s, he has earned a GRAMMY Award and 19 GRAMMY nominations, numerous #1 spots on guitar polls, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian SJ Awards, and a prestigious “Alumnus of the Year” Award from the University of Southern California. He has recorded more than 40 albums that have yielded 35 chart songs. As a young guitarist, he put his combination of diverse musical styles and brilliant technical chops to work on more than 3,000 sessions with a broad spectrum of artists, and was a founding member of Fourplay, which is considered the most successful group in contemporary jazz.

Lee celebrated five decades as a guitarist in 2010 with the release of 6 String Theory, which features Steve Lukather, Neal Schon, John Scofield, Slash, Mike Stern, George Benson and B.B. King. The album also introduced Andy McKee, Joe Robinson and Guthrie Govan. The record was in conjunction with his first multi-national 6 String Theory Competition, sponsored by Yamaha, Berklee College of Music, Montreux Jazz Festival, Blue Note Tokyo, Crown of the Continents Guitar Workshop and Festival, Monster, Premier Guitar, Jazz Monthly, Music Connection, Concord Records and D’Addario.

The Six String Theory competition continues to grow, and has now expanded to include a Rhythm Section competition for Piano, Bass and Drums. In 2012, the Grand Prize winners were honored to appear with Lee on Rhythm Sessions, which also features luminaries such as Chick Corea, George Duke, Stanley Clarke, Dave Grusin, Marcus Miller and many others. The 2014 winners will also perform with Ritenour during his concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival, which will also be filmed in HD. Additional prizes awarded include four Berklee College of Music scholarships. The guitar finalist will record on Ritenour’s forthcoming 2015 Concord release, A Twist of Rit, and will also compete for a deal with Concord Records, plus Yamaha instruments and endorsements will be awarded as well as Crown of the Continent Guitar Workshop & Festival Scholarships and more. The competition which debuted in 2010 with the release of Ritenour’s all-star guitar recording 6 String Theory, has become a highly anticipated staple for aspiring musicians of the guitar, bass drums and piano/keyboard, providing them with professional and recording opportunities, educational scholarships, mentoring and prizes.

“When I first started this competition it was my hope it would grow to become a valuable entity that would have the support of so many established musicians in mentoring aspiring ones,” says Ritenour. “In four short years we have reached incredible goals and I couldn’t be more thrilled and grateful to have so many artists be part of this extraordinary musical process and journey.”

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