R&B artist Kem. It was released on August 17, 2010 on Motown Records. The first single, “Why Would You Stay”, has gotten a great amount of airplay, peaking at number 19 and 14 onBillboard’s Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs and Heatseekers charts respectively. Like other albums, its self-produced by Kem himself and features a duet with Maurissa Rose and spoken word by Jill Scott. The album debuted at number 95 on the Hot R&B/Hip-hop albums chart. The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 74,000 copies in its first week in the United States, becoming Kem’s highest charting set ever.
I was having a Conversation with fellow COLOURFUL RADIO DJ Wes Berwise, who is lucky enough to have his show sponsored by Soul Brother Records in Putney, so he gets a lot of good new released Soul music, and we both agreed that this is the album of 2010. Judge it for yourself, but I will be very surprised if you listen to this and don’t buy it. Check it out on I tunes where you can pre listen to the tracks, and then BUY IT!
Recommended Live Concert for November 2010 The pressure of entering a journalistic role, is compiling articles and reaching deadlines. I have now experienced my first hectic moment, after compiling my article before the deadline, a last minute change has meant a new article completely! Initially my recommendation was KEM, who was to perform at the Jazz Café on November 18th but it has been cancelled. SO without any hesitation, I recommend:-
Lee Ritenour Band Featuring Patrice Rushen, support the Ronnie Scott All Stars Ronnie Scott’s Thursday 4th and Friday 5th November Tickets from 20 - 41.50
Lee Mack “Captain Fingers” Ritenour is a guitarist, recording artist, composer and producer. He began his career at the age of 16 and has appeared on over 3000 sessions, recorded over 40 albums, and has charted over 30 instrumental and vocal contemporary jazz hits since 1976. He is probably best known for the hit “Is It You” in 1981. Ritenour is considered
to be a pioneer in the Contemporary Jazz an jazz-funk genres of music.
Throughout his career, Ritenour has experimented with different styles of music. A true fusionist, he has often incorporated elements of funk, pop, rock, blues, Brazilian and most recently with Amparo (2008), classical music with jazz. In the early 1980s, Ritenour was given his own Ibanez signature model guitar, the LR-10. The LR-10 was produced from 1981 to 1987. It can be heard exclusively on his album Rit. Currently, Ritenour
plays the Gibsons that he first played in the 1970s (the ES-335 and L5), and now also plays his signature Lee Ritenour Model archtop guitar made by Gibson
Ritenour’s solo career began in 1975 with the recording of his album First Course. Released in 1976, the album gave a strong representation of the mid-1970s L.A. Jazz/Funk sound. Critics did, however, complain that his first album was “lightweight.” So Lee countered this with his strongly fusion-based follow up, Captain Fingers. This was followed by two more fusion efforts—The Captain’s Journey (1978) and Feel The Night (1979). On these albums, Ritenour primarily used something of a rich, yet rock-oriented distorted guitar sound, coming from his Gibson ES-335 guitar.
In June 2010, in order to celebrate his fifty years as a guitarist, Lee Ritenour released the album 6 String Theory (in reference to 6 musical areas covered by the use of guitar).[10] The album featured famous guitarists such as Steve Lukather, Neal Schon, John Scofield, Slash, Pat Martino,
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