First Course

Lee Ritenour | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 20, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000008C3U
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,874 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That

2. Sweet Syncopation

3. Theme from Three Days of the Condor

4. Fatback

5. Memories Past

6. Caterpillar

7. Canticle for the Universe

8. Wild Rice

9. Ohla Maria (Amparo)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The first and last..., June 7, 2006

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RetroTones - See all my reviews

This review is from: First Course (Audio CD)

Very different from Lee's subsequent and later releases, First Course is the definitive '75 time capsule of the finest in west coast funk. Envelope filters, talk boxes, wahs, phasers, echoes, Clavs, Rhodes, Moogs, horns, and more abound - all played skillfully - making this one VERY funky record. I would have preferred another release or two in this style but alas, this vein tapped out quickly. He never again used several of his guitar trick sounds which many others copied. This is a 'go-to' record for mid-'70s, west coast, studio-pro funk.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the elite, July 18, 2007

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Richard E. Bond - See all my reviews
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This review is from: First Course (Audio CD)

There are a handful of fusion jazz albums as good as this one but none better. What puts it in that class are the songs which are fabulous and the fact that Lee Ritenour is the best rhythm guitar player ever and he played all of the rhythm guitar parts, for the only time on one of his studio albums. The amazing inventiveness of his rhythm parts are worth more than the price of this one.

5.0 out of 5 stars jazz guitar wizard, February 11, 2011

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gener/mendoza*bluesman4life (philippines) - See all my reviews

This review is from: First Course (Audio CD)

very few jazz rock guitar album can rank with the majestic beauty of this first album ,,only heart string-earl klugh,,larry coryell-coryell,,inner mounting flame-john mclaughlin sleep walk-larry carlton,,blow by blow-jeff beck.if you have all these albums then you can comfortably watch the passing of time without being out of tune with the realms of modern jazz guitar.all praises to mr.ritenour for giving us a lifetime legacy thru this album.buy this album while it is still available thru amazon.