Lee Ritenour & Friends – 7:00 PM
For Lee Ritenour, there aren’t many ‘firsts’ left to achieve. A California native, Ritenour started on guitar at the age of eight. By sixteen, he was in the Los Angeles recording studios working with top musicians twice his age and experience. A founding member of Fourplay – with Harvey Mason, Nathan East and Bob James – Ritenour’s smooth, melodic style has inspired an entire generation of guitarists.
During his dazzling five-decade career, the fabled LA guitarist has taken his music to the outer limits, alighting on every genre and occupying every position in the rock & roll firmament. He’s been an ‘enfant terrible’ of seventies fusion, a crossover star of eighties pop, an honorary exponent of Brazilian jazz, and the fingers behind nineties supergroup Fourplay. Ritenour’s accolades include: forty-five albums, a GRAMMY award win, plus sixteen GRAMMY nominations, alumnus of the year at USC, Los Angeles Jazz Society Honoree (2019), plus thousands of sessions with legends such as Frank Sinatra, Pink Floyd, B.B. King, Tony Bennett, and countless others.