Awards & Winners

Lee Ritenour

Date of Birth 11-January-1952
Place of Birth Los Angeles
(Southern California, Los Angeles County, United States of America, California)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Ritenour, Lee, Lee Ritentour, Lee Ritentour, Lee Mack Ritenour, Captain Fingers, Lee Ritenaur
Profession Guitarist, Composer, Record producer
Lee Mack Ritenour is an American jazz guitarist who has recorded over 42 albums, appeared on over 3000 sessions, and has charted over 30 instrumental and vocal contemporary jazz hits since 1976. One of his most popular songs was the hit “Is It You” in 1981. Ritenour is considered to be a pioneer in the Contemporary Jazz and jazz-funk genres of music. Guitar Player Magazine awarded him with a Lifetime Achievement Award for the year 2010. His highly acclaimed and popular 2010 hit album Lee Ritenour's 6 String Theory had numerous awards in 2011 including, Guitar Album of the Year – Guitar International Magazine. UK’s Guitarist Magazine: The No. 1 Best 50 Guitar Albums of 2010. JAZZIZ Magazine Publisher’s Album of the Year. Top Albums of 2010 from Canada’s “The Guardian”. Lee was awarded at the 2011 Echo Awards in Germany for Best International Instrumentalist in conjunction with the album, 6 String Theory

Awards by Lee Ritenour

Check all the awards nominated and won by Lee Ritenour.

1985


Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement
Honored for : Early A.M. Attitude

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance Harlequin (Arlequim Desconhecido)
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Early A.M. Attitude

1981


Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance Rit