Stolen Moments

Lee Ritenour | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 17, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: GRP Records
• ASIN: B0000001R3
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,472 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Stolen Moments by Lee Ritenour

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Guitar Work, Very Classy., February 3, 2000

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This review is from: Stolen Moments (Audio CD)

This CD is really worth having if you like jazz and especially if you like fine guitar playing in the mix. The whole band is top notch and his guitar playing is absolutely flawless. To me this is what a Jazz album should be. Saying that all of the songs are good would be a great understatement. A nice glass of wine and this CD playing make for a very special occasion. Enjoy!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Flawless renditions of timeless tunes, April 28, 2000

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learjeff "learjeff" (Durham, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stolen Moments (Audio CD)

Not a fan of Rittenour's fusion music, I was astounded to hear his rendition of Stolen Moments on the radio. This tune, and the rest of the album, is a great example of the finest of today's instrumental perfectionists, playing some great tunes of the heyday of jazz, with production values pleasing to both jazz aesthetes and casual listeners.

The tunes are recorded straight and clean without overdubbing. Unlike many direct-to-disc recordings, the playing is unrestrained, yet it achieves the perfection one expects from overdubbed construction. Best of all, these guys really groove together.

A nice range of styles and tempos, from the sultry Blue In Green and reflective Haunted Heart, to the lively Uptown and the strident St. Barts. Certainly not "ear candy", but still very pleasing, and therefore an excellent album to help guide one into the deeper waters of jazz. And the rendition of Stolen Moments is a must-listen to any serious jazz afficionado.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rit playing seriously, July 7, 2006

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Jazzcat "stef" (Genoa, Italy Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stolen Moments (Audio CD)

This is the serious album from Rit. Probably the one to passed to history as a player of serious music and not only as the one who invented "elevator Jazz" which is not really something to be proud of. Rit is a very good player. He has a trademark sound and this is the utmost important thing for a musician. He has chops, creativity, melodic control, harmonic knowledge. He has all these gifts. Unfortunatly very often in search for commercial success (that he had plenty of) he traded his musical gifts for money and did record a lot of boring stuff good for elevator people. Music for malls. Frankly he released in all those years few albums that are worthy the ticket price (Rit, Festival, Color Rit, Larry and Lee, Alive in LA, Wes Bound, Earth run, Stolen Moments.. ). This is the most serious album from Rit. The music is pure jazz and Rit plays here the Jazz idiom very well. The Montgomery fascination is evident but nevertheless Rit stll managed to sound like himself and no other. He plays standards in a very convincing way here. The sound that come out of his 1949 L5 is very good. If this album was released by another more serious record company (think to Blue Note etc) probably this album now would be considered memorable. But unfortunatly things never go the way we think they should. No jazz enthusiast now would consider a Rit album from GRP a serious album (serious album are such things as Kind of blue, Trane's Ballads, brubeck's Time out etc). But it is. It is a very good serious Jazz album and from a man who recorded tons of futile music (even if very well played) I think it is a great effort. Uh, I remember this album has been one of the first "real jazz" albums I did purchase, something like ... 16 years ago. Sometimes, I still listen to this music even if I know these songs and solos by memory.