Artist: Lee Ritenour
Album: Rio / On the Line
Genre: Crossover Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Label: Wounded Bird Records
Released: 2005
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Rio (1979)
- Rio Funk (5:11)
- San Juan Sunset (5:38)
- Rainbow (5:48)
- A Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That (5:09)
- Simplicidad (4:59)
- Ipanema Sol (5:29)
- It Happens Everyday (5:43)
On the Line (1983) - The Rit Variations (6:06)
- Starbright (4:10)
- Pedestrian (4:56)
- Dolphin Dreams (5:11)
- California Roll (4:13)
- Heavenly Bodies (5:18)
- On the Line (4:09)
- Tush (4:23)
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This Lee Ritenour twin pack consists of two albums that were originally recorded by JVC for the Japanese market and saw release in the U.S., almost as an afterthought. The proof of this is that Rio and On the Line were licensed for American issue first by Elektra before getting their subsequent GRP packages. By the time GRP put them on the market, these packages were separated by a decade in terms of recording time. Rio is an all acoustic recording which has aged quite nicely over the decades, while On the Line, with three different bands and a handful of direct-to-some-kind-of-digital processes, sounds flat, dated, and in places simply tired. Hardcore Rit fans won't care, but novices should be wary.
Review by Thom Jurek