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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin\nEvent Url: http://www.a
 rtsboston.org/event/detail/440825011/Lee_Ritenour_Dave_Grusin\nEvent Date 
 Begin: 2010-08-17\nEvent Date End: 2010-08-18\n\nGrowing up in L.A. in the
  60's\, Grammy award winning guitarist Lee Ritenour received a rich cross 
 section of exposure to jazz\, rock and Brazilian music. From one of his fi
 rst sessions at 16 with the Mamas and Papas to accompanying Lena Horne and
  Tony Bennett at 18\, his forty year eclectic and storied career is highli
 ghted by a Grammy Award win for his 1986 collaboration with Dave Grusin\, 
 Harlequin\; 17 Grammy nominations\; numerous #1 spots in guitar polls and 
 the prestigious &ldquo\;Alumnus of the Year&rdquo\; award from USC.  He ha
 s recorded over 40 albums\, with 35 chart songs\, notably the Top 15 hit &
 ldquo\;Is It You\,&rdquo\; which has become a contemporary jazz radio clas
 sic. In the 90s\, Ritenour was a founding member of Fourplay\, the most su
 ccessful band in contemporary jazz\, with keyboardist Bob James\, bassist 
 Nathan East and drummer Harvey Mason. The first Fourplay album in 1991 spe
 nt an unprecedented 33 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's contemporary jazz cha
 rt. Adding to this legacy is his latest CD Smoke 'n' Mirrors\; the recentl
 y completed Grammy nominated recording Amparo\, (a follow-up with Dave Gru
 sin to their highly successful 2001 Grammy Award nominated contemporary cl
 assical crossover CD) and producer of Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band's lat
 est CD Act Your Age (which is nominated for 3 Grammys. +++++++++++++++++++
 ++++++++++  When legendary Grammy winning composer Henry Mancini died in 1
 994\, he left behind an incredible legacy of film and television music who
 se jazzy and orchestral innovations inspired a whole generation of film sc
 orers and jazz performers. Among his great friends and admirers was Dave G
 rusin\, who drew upon the early Mancini influence to carve out his own Osc
 ar-winning niche as one of the premier movie music writers of the past thi
 rty years\, as well as a prolific career as a contemporary jazz pianist. I
 n the tradition of his popular recent tribute recordings The Gershwin Conn
 ection and Homage to Duke\, Grusin reaches into Mancini's vast\, eclectic 
 catalog for 'Two For The Road\,' a definitive retrospective which rings br
 ightly both as a memorial and celebration of the man and his music.  Grusi
 n planned for a career in academia when he moved to New York in 1959 and e
 nrolled in the Manhattan School of Music\, but he soon found himself touri
 ng behind Andy Williams\, moving to Los Angeles in the process. In William
 s' band\, he met drummer Larry Rosen\, who became Grusin's partner nearly 
 two decades later in launching contemporary jazz mecca GRP Records. He lau
 nched his recording career in the mid-60's with two jazz trio albums\, Sub
 ways are For Sleeping and Piano\, Strings and Moonlight\, which drew upon 
 the influences of Art Tatum\, Bill Evans and Red Garland.  Inspired by tho
 se like Mancini and Andre Previn\, Grusin left his music director gig with
  The Andy Williams Show in 1964 and scored the Norman Lear/Bud Yorkin come
 dy Divorce American Style the following year. This marked the beginning of
  his career as a premier film composer\, with over 30 scores to his credit
 . Among his Academy Award-nominated work over the years have been scores f
 or Heaven Can Wait\, The Champ\, On Golden Pond\, Tootsie (he co-wrote the
  Stephen Bishop hit\, 'It Might Be You')\, The Milagro Beanfield War (whic
 h won the 1988 Oscar)\, Havana\, The Fabulous Baker Boys and The Firm. Oth
 er well known films include The Heart is a Lonely Hunter\, Three Days of t
 he Condor\, The Goodbye Girl\, And Justice For All\, Reds\, and Tequila Su
 nrise. In 1987\, Grusin released Cinemagic\, a compilation of new versions
  of his classic scores. Grusin also penned the theme songs for Lear-produc
 ed '70's sitcoms Good Times and Maude\, as well as the TV series Baretta a
 nd St. Elsewhere..  Launching GRP as a production company in the late '70s
 \, Grusin and Rosen created what became one of the most popular labels of 
 the New Adult Contemporary genre\, with popular artists like The Rippingto
 ns\, Spyro Gyra\, David Benoit\, Lee Ritenour and Tom Scott. Grusin's own 
 hits for the label include Night-lines (1984)\, Harlequin (a duet album wi
 th Lee Ritenour in 1986)\, Sticks and Stones (a duet with brother Don in 1
 987)\, The Fabulous Baker Boys (a double Grammy winner in 1989)\, Migratio
 n (1989)\, and the tributes The Gershwin Connection (1991) and Homage to D
 uke (1993). He also participated in GRP all-star projects\, Super Live\, t
 he NY/LA Dream Band and the three GRP All Star Big Band albums.\n\nStart t
 ime: 8pm & 10pm
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