Lee Ritenour

Lee Mack "Captain Fingers" Ritenour (born January 11 1952) has been a prominent session musician and successful solo artist since the early 1970s. His early projects helped to form the style of music that is now known as smooth jazz. In the mid-1980s, Ritenour's infatuation with Brazilian rhythyms (as well as then-new guitar technology such as the Synthaxe) led him to bring many new elements to the genre. A founding member of the smooth jazz group Fourplay, he left in 1991 and was replaced by Larry Carlton.

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January 11 - 1952 - Session musician - 1970s - Smooth jazz - 1980s - Brazilian - Synthaxe - Fourplay - Larry Carlton

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