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Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band: Act Your Age
by Edward Blanco
Band leader, composer and instrumentalist Gordon Goodwin takes his 18-piece Big Phat Band to another level, producing a rare CD/DVD set and garnishing a heap of praise from critics and the Grammy folks alike. Act Your Age is one heck of an album, having received three 2008 Grammy nominations for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, Best ...
Jazz & Blues: A Tribute to B.B. King
by Jim Santella
Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Jazz Saxophone Competition and concert Kodak Theater Los Angeles, California October 26, 2008 As Poncho Sanchez opened the concert alone on stage with a serious chant aloud over his conga drums, the audience was reminded that jazz is composed of parts ...
Lee Ritenour: Smoke 'n' Mirrors
by Woodrow Wilkins
With a deep admiration for Wes Montgomery and a penchant for Brazilian music, Lee Ritenour is one of the most prolific guitarists in modern jazz. Whether as a front man, sideman or member of a group, “Captain Fingers can always be counted on for quality music. A Grammy winner, Ritenour has performed or recorded with several ...
Smoke n' Mirrors
By Lee Ritenour
Label: Peak Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Smoke n' Mirrors; Capetown; Southwest Passage; Waters Edge; Spellbinder;
Memeza; Povo; Lovely Day; Township; Forget Me Nots; Stone Cool; Motherland; 4 1/2 Storms.
Lee Ritenour: Smoke n' Mirrors
by Jeff Winbush
If travel is a broadening experience for the average Joe, it must be positively a revelation for the restless artist. Such is the case for Lee Ritenour, a musician who abandoned the comfort zone of cranking out innocuous jams for the far more risky territory of fusing world beat with contemporary jazz.In 2005, the ...
Lee Ritenour: Overtime
by Woodrow Wilkins
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 ...
