My top 12 sources of Music inspiration Final

Lee Ritenour - Captain Fingers!

 

1977

Listen to Mr Ritenours amazing solo on Syntguitar!

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  2015

My Top 12 sources of Music inspiration:

1. Lee Ritenour (Captain Fingers)

2. Janne Schaffer/Björn J:son Lindh (Sweden)

3. George Gershwin

4. Antonio Carlos Jobim

5. Larry Carlton

6. Pat Metheney Group

7. Bill Evans

8. Wes Montgomery/ George Benson

9. Quincy Jones

10. Count Basie Big Band

11. Herbie Hancock

12 The Beatles (John Lennon) 

Inspiration:

1. Stimulation or arousal of the mind, feelings, etc, to special or unusual activity or creativity.

2. The state or quality of being so stimulated or aroused.

3. Someone or something that causes this state.

4. An idea or action resulting from such a state.

The reason I did this, is that it´s now a year sice I started my Blogg Jazz Spectrum 55!

 

I can asure you that sorting and ranking to a list of just 12 was NOT easy at all!

These cats below are in my bank of good music/performer (s) but are not qualified for My Top 12.

Karlskrona Navyband, (Flottans Musikkår), Harold Jefta, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Steve Gadd, Glenn Miller, Woody Herman, Stevie Wonder,  Spyro Gyra, Steely Dan, Frank Zappa, Ella Fitzgerald, Masayoshi Takanaka, Steve Vai, The Shadows, Hank Marvin, Bob James, The Ventures, Buddy Guy, Jeff Beck, Tony Joe White, Carlos Santana, Al di Meola, Charlie Christian, John Mclaughlin, Dexter Gordon, Jimmy Smith, B.B King, Eric Clapton, Herbie Mann, W. A. Mozart, Stevie Ray Vaughan, P. Tjajkowski, F. Chopin, Maurice Ravel,  and Claude Debussy. Chic Corea and RTF, Frank Sinatra, Art Blakey and the Jazzmessengers, Weather Report, Miles Davies and Larry Coryell and many, many more.

Countdown / Captain Fingers

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Latin Lovers

-Treat the music well, it´s our best friend - Lee Ritenour

 

Lee Ritenour - Asa (1987)