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Lee Ritenour
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๐†๐‘๐€๐Œ๐Œ๐˜ยฎ ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐-๐–๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ž๐ซ & ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐ฑ-๐†๐‘๐€๐Œ๐Œ๐˜ยฎ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐†๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ซ ๐‹๐ž๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐‹๐„๐„ ๐‘๐ˆ๐“๐„๐๐Ž๐”๐‘ and his Acclaimed Band perform at Jimmyโ€™s Jazz & Blues Club on ๐…๐ซ๐ข๐๐š๐ฒ ๐‰๐ฎ๐ง๐ž ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ญ ๐Ÿ• & ๐Ÿ—:๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŽ ๐.๐Œ. "๐ฟ๐‘’๐‘’ ๐‘…๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘“๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘› ๐‘—๐‘Ž๐‘ง๐‘งโ€ฆ"๐ถ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘› ๐น๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ " ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘,โ€ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘  ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฟ ๐ด๐ต๐‘‚๐‘ˆ๐‘‡ ๐ฝ๐ด๐‘๐‘. (7 ๐‘ท๐‘ด โ€“ ๐‘ณ๐‘ฐ๐‘ด๐‘ฐ๐‘ป๐‘ฌ๐‘ซ ๐‘ป๐‘ฐ๐‘ช๐‘ฒ๐‘ฌ๐‘ป๐‘บ ๐‘น๐‘ฌ๐‘ด๐‘จ๐‘ฐ๐‘ต๐‘ฐ๐‘ต๐‘ฎ!!)
"๐‘พ๐’‰๐’†๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“ ๐’†๐’Ž๐’–๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐‘พ๐’†๐’” ๐‘ด๐’๐’๐’•๐’ˆ๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’“๐’š'๐’” ๐’๐’„๐’•๐’‚๐’—๐’†๐’” ๐’๐’“ ๐’„๐’–๐’“๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‚๐’“๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’Š๐’ ๐’”๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’๐’†-๐’”๐’•๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‡๐’‚๐’”๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’, ๐‘น๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’๐’๐’–๐’“'๐’” ๐’‘๐’๐’‚๐’š๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’Š๐’” ๐’Š๐’“๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’ƒ๐’๐’š ๐’•๐’‚๐’”๐’•๐’š..."
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๐‘น๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐’‰๐’‚๐’” ๐’‰๐’‚๐’… ๐’•๐’‰๐’๐’–๐’”๐’‚๐’๐’…๐’” ๐’๐’‡ ๐’”๐’†๐’”๐’”๐’Š๐’๐’๐’”, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’…๐’† ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’๐’š ๐’‚๐’๐’ƒ๐’–๐’Ž๐’”, ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐’๐’†๐’ˆ๐’†๐’๐’…๐’” ๐’”๐’–๐’„๐’‰ ๐’‚๐’” ๐‘ญ๐’“๐’‚๐’๐’Œ ๐‘บ๐’Š๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’“๐’‚, ๐‘ท๐’Š๐’๐’Œ ๐‘ญ๐’๐’๐’š๐’…, ๐‘ฉ.๐‘ฉ. ๐‘ฒ๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ, ๐‘ป๐’๐’๐’š ๐‘ฉ๐’†๐’๐’๐’†๐’•๐’•, ๐‘ฑ๐’๐’‰๐’ ๐‘บ๐’„๐’๐’‡๐’Š๐’†๐’๐’…, ๐‘ซ๐’Š๐’›๐’›๐’š ๐‘ฎ๐’Š๐’๐’๐’†๐’”๐’‘๐’Š๐’†, ๐‘จ๐’“๐’†๐’•๐’‰๐’‚ ๐‘ญ๐’“๐’‚๐’๐’Œ๐’๐’Š๐’, ๐‘ช๐’‚๐’“๐’๐’š ๐‘บ๐’Š๐’Ž๐’๐’, ๐‘ฎ๐’†๐’๐’“๐’ˆ๐’† ๐‘ฉ๐’†๐’๐’”๐’๐’, ๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’†๐’๐’š ๐‘ซ๐’‚๐’, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’๐’š ๐’๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’”!!
๐ƒ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐†๐‘๐€๐Œ๐Œ๐˜ยฎ ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐-๐–๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ž๐ซ & ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐ฑ-๐†๐‘๐€๐Œ๐Œ๐˜ยฎ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐†๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ซ ๐‹๐ž๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐‹๐„๐„ ๐‘๐ˆ๐“๐„๐๐Ž๐”๐‘'๐ฌ ๐๐š๐ณ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž-๐๐ž๐œ๐š๐๐ž ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ซ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐‹๐€ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐š๐ค๐ž๐ง ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐œ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ, alighting on every genre and occupying every position in the Rock โ€˜nโ€™ Roll firmament. Heโ€™s been an enfant terrible of โ€™70s fusion, a crossover star of the โ€™80s pop chart, an honorary exponent of Brazilian jazz, and the fingers behind โ€™90s supergroup, Fourplay.
๐‘๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ซโ€™๐ฌ ๐š๐œ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐š๐๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐ž ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ“+ ๐š๐œ๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฅ๐›๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฌ; Several Gold Albums; GRAMMYยฎ Award-Winner; 19 GRAMMYยฎ Award Nominations; Alumnus of the year at USC; Los Angelesโ€™ Jazz Society Honoree (2019); and Numerous #1 Spots on Guitar Polls.
๐‘๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐…๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Œ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‰๐š๐ณ๐ณ ๐’๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐…๐Ž๐”๐‘๐๐‹๐€๐˜ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐‘๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐จ๐ง ๐†๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ซ, ๐๐Ž๐ ๐‰๐€๐Œ๐„๐’ ๐จ๐ง ๐Š๐ž๐ฒ๐›๐จ๐š๐ซ๐๐ฌ, ๐๐€๐“๐‡๐€๐ ๐„๐€๐’๐“ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‡๐€๐‘๐•๐„๐˜ ๐Œ๐€๐’๐Ž๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ƒ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฌ. Their debut album, โ€˜Fourplayโ€™ (1991), went Platinum, sold over a million copies and remained at the #1 position on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz chart for 33 weeks. Their next album, โ€˜Between the Sheetsโ€™ (1993), reached #1, went Gold, and received a GRAMMY Nomination. Their third album, โ€˜Elixirโ€™ (1995), went Gold and also reached the #1 position and remained on the chart for more than 90 weeks!
๐‚๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค, ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ ๐‹๐€ ๐ฃ๐š๐ณ๐ณ ๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐› ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ž๐ž๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž ๐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐ข๐-โ€™๐Ÿ”๐ŸŽ๐ฌ.
โ€œ๐ผโ€™๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘’๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘ฆ 12, ๐ผ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ . ๐ธ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘ฆโ€™๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘ข๐‘š๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘›, ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก? ๐‘†๐‘œ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘‘ โ€“ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘œ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ โ€“ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐ฝ๐‘œ๐‘’ ๐‘ƒ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐ต๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฆ ๐พ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘š ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘”๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘›. ๐ต๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฆ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ, ๐ท๐‘ข๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘€๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”. ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘˜๐‘ฆ ๐‘—๐‘Ž๐‘ง๐‘ง ๐‘๐‘™๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐ผ ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘Š๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘€๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ. ๐ต๐‘ฆ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ 16, ๐ผโ€™๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘“๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘—๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘๐‘˜.โ€
๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ซ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ, ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐‹๐ž๐ž ๐‘๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ซ ๐ฌ๐œ๐ž๐ง๐ž ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐ข๐-โ€™๐Ÿ”๐ŸŽ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž๐š๐ญ.
โ€œ๐ผ๐‘› ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘’๐‘™๐‘‘, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘”๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘ . ๐ผ๐‘› ๐‘—๐‘Ž๐‘ง๐‘ง, ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘‘ ๐ฝ๐‘œ๐‘’ ๐‘ƒ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ , ๐‘Š๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘€๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ, ๐ต๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฆ ๐พ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™, ๐ป๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘ ๐‘…๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘ , ๐ฝ๐‘–๐‘š ๐ป๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™, ๐‘ƒ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘€๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘œ. ๐ผ๐‘› ๐ต๐‘™๐‘ข๐‘’๐‘ , ๐ต.๐ต. ๐พ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐ด๐‘™๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก ๐พ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐ฝ๐‘œโ„Ž๐‘› ๐ฟ๐‘’๐‘’ ๐ป๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘Ÿ. ๐ผ๐‘› ๐‘…๐‘œ๐‘๐‘˜, ๐ฝ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘– ๐ป๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ฅ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐ถ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐ต๐‘’๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’. ๐ผ๐‘› ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ, ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘‘ ๐ถโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ก ๐ด๐‘ก๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ , ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘†๐‘’๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘Ž, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘†๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ , ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ƒ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ ๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐ฟ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘–๐‘Ž ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐น๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘๐‘œ! ๐บ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘‘, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐ผ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘š ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™โ€ฆ๐ป๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก?โ€
๐“๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ž๐œ๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐ ๐‘๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฃ๐š๐ณ๐ณ ๐ ๐ข๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐š๐ญ ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐š ๐ฉ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž: ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐œ๐ก๐ž๐œ๐ค ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž-๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ ๐Œ๐ซ. ๐Œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ‘โ€™๐ฌ ๐š๐ฅ๐›๐ฎ๐ฆ '๐–๐ž๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐'. But from the day he lucked into his first session for The Mamas and The Papas at age 16, Ritenour had the widescreen musicality to forge a career as one of LAโ€™s busiest session men.
โ€œ๐ผ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘š๐‘’๐‘š๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐ฝ๐‘œโ„Ž๐‘› ๐‘ƒโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™๐‘–๐‘๐‘  โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘œ ๐‘–๐‘› โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐ต๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐ป๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐ผ ๐‘—๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก, โ€˜๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐ผ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘กโ€™. ๐ด๐‘  ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ , ๐ผ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘š๐‘’๐‘š๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐ต๐‘œ๐‘ ๐ธ๐‘ง๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘› โ€œ๐‘‚๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘‚๐‘“ ๐‘€๐‘ฆ ๐‘‡๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘ โ€ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ โ€œ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘š๐‘โ€ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘ƒ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐น๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ฆ๐‘‘โ€™๐‘ , ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Š๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™โ€ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘๐‘™๐‘’. ๐ด๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘„๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘›๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐ฝ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘ข๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐บ๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘”๐‘’ ๐ต๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘›โ€™๐‘ , โ€œ๐บ๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘€๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘กโ€ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘๐‘ข๐‘š ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ข๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” โ€˜๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘™ 4๐‘Ž๐‘š ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘†๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘’ ๐‘Š๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘” โ„Ž๐‘’โ€™๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐บ๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘”๐‘’โ€™๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘๐‘ข๐‘šโ€ฆ๐ป๐‘Ž! ๐‘‡๐‘œ๐‘œ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘ !โ€
๐‹๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐œ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š๐œ๐ž, ๐“๐จ๐ญ๐จโ€™๐ฌ ๐’๐ญ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž ๐‹๐ฎ๐ค๐š๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ, ๐‘๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง ๐š ๐ ๐ฎ๐ง-๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ-๐ก๐ข๐ซ๐ž. In โ€™76, he launched his own solo career with his debut album โ€˜First Courseโ€™, and managed the magic trick of following his muse while finding enviable commercial success, especially in the โ€™80s.
โ€œ๐‘‚๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Š๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก, ๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘—๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”,โ€ โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘š๐‘’๐‘š๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ , โ€œ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘”๐‘–๐‘›๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘, ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘—๐‘Ž๐‘ง๐‘ง. ๐‘Š๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐ฝ๐‘œโ„Ž๐‘› ๐‘€๐‘๐ฟ๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›, ๐ถโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘๐‘˜ ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’, ๐บ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Š๐‘Ž๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘› ๐ฝ๐‘Ÿ, ๐ท๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘‘ ๐‘†๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘›, ๐ต๐‘œ๐‘ ๐ฝ๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘’๐‘ . ๐‘†๐‘œ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž ๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘› ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก. ๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘› ๐ผ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘Ž ๐บ๐‘…๐ด๐‘€๐‘€๐‘Œยฎ ๐‘–๐‘› 1985 โ€“ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ โ€œ๐ธ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐ด.๐‘€. ๐ด๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘‘๐‘’โ€ โ€“ ๐ผ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐ผ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘’๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ. ๐ต๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘›โ€™๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘ค๐‘’โ€™๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘.โ€
๐‹๐ข๐ค๐ž๐ฐ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฃ๐š๐ณ๐ณ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐…๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐š ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐ก๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐ž๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฒ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ ๐๐ž๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐š๐ฅ๐›๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐‘๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐›๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ.
โ€œ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘š๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘š๐‘’, ๐ต๐‘œ๐‘ ๐ฝ๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘’๐‘ , ๐ป๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘ฆ ๐‘€๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐ธ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก. ๐‘Œ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›โ€™๐‘ก ๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ค ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ž ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก โ€“ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘’๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘›โ€™๐‘ก. ๐‘Š๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘๐‘ข๐‘š๐‘ , ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐ผ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜ ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› 1997. ๐ต๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘—๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ.โ€
๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐š๐ฅ๐ฉ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž, ๐ญ๐จ๐จ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐‘๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐š๐๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐š๐ฅ๐›๐ฎ๐ฆ, '๐’๐ข๐ฑ ๐’๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐“๐ก๐ž๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ', ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ-๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ ๐š๐ฅ๐›๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฆ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐ก๐žโ€™๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐š๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐š๐ญ๐ก.
โ€œ๐ผ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘ , ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ, ๐‘—๐‘Ž๐‘ง๐‘ง, ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘ฆ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘. ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘–๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ, โ€˜๐‘๐‘œ, ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ขโ€™๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘š๐‘’โ€™. ๐ต๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘ฆ 2010, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘™๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘›โ€™๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘™ ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ฆ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ฆ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘—๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก๐‘ . ๐ผ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘‘๐‘‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘†๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐ฟ๐‘ข๐‘˜๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐บ๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘”๐‘’ ๐ต๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐ต.๐ต. ๐พ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘ . ๐‘Š๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐ฝ๐‘œ๐‘’ ๐ต๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐ฝ๐‘œโ„Ž๐‘› ๐‘†๐‘๐‘œ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘’๐‘™๐‘‘ โ€“ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘–๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“๐‘“.โ€
๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐›๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐›๐ž ๐š ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ญ, ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐š ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฅ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ญ-๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐ฌ, ๐‘๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ซโ€™๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š๐œ๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฅ๐›๐ฎ๐ฆ โ€˜๐ƒ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฆ๐œ๐š๐ญ๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ซโ€™ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐ž๐ญ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ. Both by necessity and design, this latest album represents music in its purest form: one man, channeling his headspace and the history unfolding around him, using the instrument that has sustained him all these years. There is a first time for everything and there has never been a better time for โ€˜Dreamcatcherโ€™.
โ€œ๐ผโ€™๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘’๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘กโ€™๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘๐‘–๐‘’๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ. ๐ผ๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘๐‘’๐‘›... ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’๐‘  โ€“ ๐‘Ž๐‘“๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ž ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘“๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ,โ€ โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ , โ€œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘—๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘“๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘—๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘โ„Ž ๐ผ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ.โ€
๐“๐ข๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ญ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐†๐‘๐€๐Œ๐Œ๐˜ยฎ ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐-๐–๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ž๐ซ & ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐ฑ-๐†๐‘๐€๐Œ๐Œ๐˜ยฎ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐†๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ซ ๐‹๐ž๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐‹๐„๐„ ๐‘๐ˆ๐“๐„๐๐Ž๐”๐‘ at Jimmyโ€™s Jazz & Blues Club on ๐…๐ซ๐ข๐๐š๐ฒ ๐‰๐ฎ๐ง๐ž ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ญ ๐Ÿ• & ๐Ÿ—:๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŽ ๐.๐Œ. are NOW On-Sale on Ticketmaster, Facebook Events at: https://fb.me/e/4dH8EWeyS (7 PM) & https://fb.me/e/3vswHwpLa (9:30 PM) and Jimmyโ€™s Website at: https://jimmysoncongress.com/event/lee-ritenour-3/ โ€“ ๐‘ซ๐’๐’๐’“๐’” ๐’๐’‘๐’†๐’ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‚ ๐’…๐’†๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’” ๐’…๐’Š๐’๐’๐’†๐’“ ๐’Š๐’” ๐’”๐’†๐’“๐’—๐’†๐’… - ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐’”๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’–๐’“๐’† ๐’…๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’Œ๐’” ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’„๐’๐’„๐’Œ๐’•๐’‚๐’Š๐’๐’” --- (and our ๐‘จ๐’˜๐’‚๐’“๐’…-๐‘พ๐’Š๐’๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐‘พ๐’Š๐’๐’† ๐‘ณ๐’Š๐’”๐’•)- ๐’‚๐’• 5 ๐’‘๐’Ž!!
๐๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฆ ๐š๐ญ: https://www.instagram.com/jimmysjazzblues/
๐€๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‰๐ข๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฒ'๐ฌ ๐‰๐š๐ณ๐ณ & ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ ๐‚๐ฅ๐ฎ๐› ๐’๐ก๐จ๐ฐ๐ฌ & ๐„๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐›๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐š๐ญ: https://jimmysoncongress.com/events/ - ๐‘ถ๐‘ผ๐‘ป๐‘บ๐‘ป๐‘จ๐‘ต๐‘ซ๐‘ฐ๐‘ต๐‘ฎ 2024 ๐‘บ๐‘ฏ๐‘ถ๐‘พ๐‘บ ๐‘ถ๐‘ต-๐‘บ๐‘จ๐‘ณ๐‘ฌ ๐‘ต๐‘ถ๐‘พ!! (GIFT CARDS are available on Jimmy's Website or by calling Jimmy's Box Office at 1-888-603-5299)
๐’๐ข๐ ๐ง-๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐‰๐ข๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฒ'๐ฌ ๐‰๐š๐ณ๐ณ & ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ ๐‚๐ฅ๐ฎ๐› ๐„๐ฆ๐š๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐ž๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐ญ: www.jimmysoncongress.com/subscribe to stay informed on Upcoming Shows, New Artist Announcements, Promotional Offers, Ticket On-Sale Dates, Special Performances, Sunday Jazz Brunch, and much more!! Thank you!!
๐‰๐ข๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฒ'๐ฌ ๐‰๐š๐ณ๐ณ & ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ ๐‚๐ฅ๐ฎ๐› ๐Œ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ๐ฌ allowing for advanced purchasing of tickets can be found on our website - https://jimmysoncongress.com/jimmys-inner-circle/ - thank you to all 800+ of our current members for your support!!
๐๐‘๐ˆ๐•๐€๐“๐„ ๐„๐•๐„๐๐“๐’, ๐‚๐Ž๐‘๐๐Ž๐‘๐€๐“๐„ ๐„๐•๐„๐๐“๐’ & ๐–๐„๐ƒ๐ƒ๐ˆ๐๐†๐’. Jimmyโ€™s Jazz & Blues Club offers a rare and spectacular venue to host important corporate functions, weddings, intimate or large-scale social gatherings, private parties, and memorable celebrations!! If interested, please email: [email protected] or fill out Jimmy's Event Request Form at: https://jimmysoncongress.com/book-an-event/
๐‰๐จ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐“๐ž๐š๐ฆ ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐š๐›๐ซ๐ข๐ž ๐†๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐…๐š๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ. Current job openings are available at: www.TheLabrieGroup.com.
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