Featuring a bevy of world music guests, guitarist Lee Ritenour's Smoke 'N' Mirrors is a stylish, joyous, and laid-back multicultural affair. Among the guests are.

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Jbilling Installation Wizard. If travel is a broadening experience for the average Joe, it must be positively a revelation for the restless artist. Such is the case for Lee Ritenour, a musician who abandoned the comfort zone of cranking out innocuous jams for the far more risky territory of fusing world beat with contemporary jazz.

In 2005, the guitarist performed in a series of concerts in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa. The trip left such an impression upon him that for Smoke n' Mirrors he invited a host of musicians from South Africa, Cameroon, Brazil, Columbia, Peru and India.

He added a host of prominent seasoned pros to the eclectic mix, including Dave Grusin, John Patitucci, Patrice Rushen and Richard Bona. In search of different sounds, Ritenour also added nine percussionists and played twelve different guitars on the album. 'The concept for the album came from a lot of different sources, all of which coalesced with my trip to South Africa,' Ritenour says. Frister Rossmann Manual Cub 4 Life.

The result is a lively blending of what Ritenour dubs 'world flavor,' and it should be well-received by listeners who demand more from music than reheated riffs and vapid reworkings of familiar tunes. That extra 'flavor' is what takes the reinterpreting of Patrice Rushen's 'Forget Me Nots' and Bill Withers' 'Lovely Day' a notch above the humdrum. Both of these songs are staples of classic R&B radio, but not with a South African vocalist (Zamajobe) providing the lead vocals. Rushen herself provides the backing vocals to 'Forget Me Nots,' also adding a shimmering electric piano and organ solo.