Larry & Lee

Lee Ritenour & Larry Carlton - Larry & Lee

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Artist: Lee Ritenour & Larry Carlton
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1995-04-25
Music Label: Grp Records
Soundtracks:

Crosstown Kids
Low Steppin'
L.A. 'Underground'
Closed Door Jam
After The Rain
Remembering J. P.
Fun In The Dark
Lots About Nothin'
Take That
Up And Adam
Reflection Of A Guitar Player

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Music Review: Smooth Guitar Yin and Yan
Rating: 5 Stars

This disk is great for many reasons.

What I like best is that it is a musical laboratory where each song is an experiment exposing key elements of what makes each guitarist great. At the end, I think Larry and Lee have very complementary approaches to guitar playing, composing and arranging. You get to hear that more clearly on this disk as a result of the mix of playing styles and songs than you would on their solo disks.

Let's start with key Lee elements. From a guitar playing standpoint, he can do just about everything well and make it sound easy. As a soloist, he has much more jazz in his jazz blues mix. Lee is very much from the Wes Montgomery/George Benson school. From a song writing perspective, he writes very strong lead lines. "Crosstown Kids" and "LA Underground" showcase this best. From an arranging perspective, he tends to let the rest of the band handle the chords and harmony of the song. In this respect, Lee is like Grant Green as a song writer.

Key Larry elements: From a guitar playing standpoint, Larry puts out a more limited range of guitar technique and everything he does is infused with Carlton. Larry is about Larryness. (In some sense, Lee is so free, great and easy about everything technically that his guitar personality is harder to pin down.) As a soloist, Larry has much more blues and R&B than jazz. But when he goes into jazzland, it often has more dissonance and angularity then is typical for jazz guitar, smooth or otherwise. To me, Larry is more like Grant Green as soloist. From a song writing perspective, Larry is about close harmonies played by the guitar either through chords or doubled lead lines. The rest of the band is more about playing accents and handling the harmony during guitar solos. This is on full display in "Remembering J.P" and "Up and Adam." In this respect, Larry is more like Joe Pass if Joe focused more on original tunes and wrapped a band around his most famous solo jazz guitar approach.

Those who want more loose, raw, uninhibited playing should go elsewhere: Larry and Lee will never let you know these qualities because their guitar playing skills are just too good. If you want loose, raw, uninhibited, but righteously skilled guitar playing, check out Rick Derringer's work on Edgar Winter's "Roadwork" album.

Those who like smooth/contemporary jazz, but would like to hear different, guitar-oriented approaches to this style will love this album.

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