Lee Ritenour - Banded Together

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 1984
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:53
Size: 99,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:25)  1. Operator (Thief On The Line)
(4:07)  2. Other Love
(4:23)  3. Sunset Drivers
(4:41)  4. Mandela
(3:42)  5. Amaretto
(4:15)  6. Rit Variations II
(3:50)  7. Be Good To Me
(4:21)  8. I'm Not Responsible
(4:26)  9. Shadow Dancing
(4:38) 10. Heavenly Bodies

Lee Ritenour goes techno/pop/rock on an album originally released on the pop Elektra label and as such is not recommended to jazz fans with a low tolerance for the stuff. Here Captain Fingers extends his reach to play keyboards and programmed electronic drums on a few tracks, along with very competent rock guitar to little effect, for the material is just not very interesting. Indeed, in a telling move, two songs from the previous record, On the Line, are actually recycled here ("Rit Variations II," " Heavenly Bodies"); the former comes off a little better in machine-driven, techno-pop manner. Ernie Watts' protean sax talents are wasted, Eric Tagg and John Massaro's high-pitched pop voices are hard to tell apart without a scorecard, and the largely electronic backing never meets a real groove that it can find. And no hits result anyway. ~ Richard S.Ginell https://www.allmusic.com/album/banded-together-mw0000120801

Personnel: Lee Ritenour - producer, executive producer, engineering, music, lyrics, arrangements, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, 12 string acoustic guitar, 12 string electric guitar, guitar synthesizer, bass synthesizer, drum machine, drum programming, synthesizer, Synclavier; Greg Mathieson - producer, music, lyrics, arrangements, bass synthesizer, moog bass taurus, drum programming, keyboards, synthesizer, solo, prophet-5;  Jerry Hey, Gary Grant,  Larry Williams, Gary Herbig - horns

Banded Together

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