First Course
- A "first course" in cookery refers to an entrée.
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First Course is the first studio album by jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour. The album was released on LP by Epic Records in 1976. It was released on CD by Columbia Records in 1990.
Reception
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The album was made at the time that Ritenour was a session musician, considered perhaps the best in Los Angeles at the time next to Larry Carlton.[2] He drafted friends and peers from Dante's and the Baked Potato club in Studio City to record this "artifact of the early L.A. jazz/funk sound".[3]
Ritenour was worried about creating the album, as he has stated, "I was still thinking as a studio musician, and I was very worried about having my own identity on the guitar, because up until that time my job as a studio musician had been to be a "chameleon"...it wasn't until several years later that I felt more comfortable with who I was stylistically."[2]
Financial problems plagued the album because the "sound perplexed studio executives" were looking for the next Bitches Brew or Return to Forever.[4] This was melodic rhythm and blues-based jazz that didn't find a home until new wave radio stations became mainstream over a decade later.[4]
Track listing
All tracks composed by Lee Ritenour except where indicated
- "Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That" – 6:16
- "Sweet Syncopation" – 4:47
- "Theme from Three Days of the Condor" (Dave Grusin) – 4:08
- "Fatback" – 4:18
- "Memories Past" – 1:51
- "Caterpillar" (Dave Grusin) – 4:21
- "Canticle for the Universe" (Jerry Peters) – 6:12
- "Wild Rice" – 5:32
- "Ohla Maria (Amparo)" (Antônio Carlos Jobim) – 3:50
Personnel
- Lee Ritenour – electric guitar, classical guitar, synthesizer, vocals
- Jerome Richardson – baritone saxophone
- Tom Scott – tenor saxophone, lyricon
- Ernie Watts – tenor saxophone
- Chuck Findley – trumpet
- Frank Rosolino – trombone
- Dave Grusin – organ, synthesizer, piano, clavinet
- Larry Nash, Michael Omartian, Jerry Peters, Patrice Rushen – keyboards, clavinet
- Bill Dickinson, Louis Johnson, Chuck Rainey – bass guitar
- Ed Greene, Harvey Mason – drums
- Jerry Steinholtz –percussion
- Ian Underwood – synthesizer programming
External links
References
- ^ Ginell, Richard S.. Lee Ritenour: First Course > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 08 September 2011.
- ^ a b Willie G. Moseley. "...Rit on the Right". Archived from the original on 2006-12-31. Retrieved 2007-06-05.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Ginell, Richard. "First Course – Lee Ritenour". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
- ^ a b "Review of The Best of Lee Ritenour". October 23, 2003. Retrieved 2007-06-05.