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As comfortable as guitarist Lee Ritenour has always been in the smooth jazz format, he has strived to go beyond it with his embrace of world music and serious jazz stylists including Wes Montgomery. Smoke 'N' Mirrors is a characteristic production in gathering up a sizable cast of contemporary cronies including Patrice Rushen, Dave Grusin, Richard Bona and Abraham Laboriel, but Ritenour's involvement in South African and Brazilian music and his emphasis on acoustic guitar give it a fresh identity. The wistful "Blue Days (Dias Azuis)," written and arranged by Daniel Jobim, son of Antonio Carlos, and featuring the singer Joyce, is one of the album's highlights. The young South African vocalist Zamajobe, featured on three songs, is a real discovery. You may wish Ritenour had stayed on ethnic turf and saved the more familiar, keyboard-sweetened fare for another album. Or you may enjoy the variety of Smoke 'N' Mirrors, which ranges percussively from Sheila E.'s congas to Satnam Ramgotra's Indian tablas. --Lloyd Sachs

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Date: 2008-01-01
Smoke 'N Mirror
This was given to my niece who loves jazz. I hope she will enjoy it for
a Christmas gift. Her christmas gift was just delivered over the weekend.

Rating:
Date: 2007-10-26
Music with class!
This is a cd everyone who loves smooth jazz should have in there collection. It's a mix of african, brazillean, latin music with artists that demand respect. Lee has shown once again that he can mix all kinds of foreign sounds in his talented guitarwork.
I love this cd so much. I love the idea that his own son performs percussion on this album. That shows what kind of person Lee Ritenour is to be interested in others to make his album to the best!!!

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Date: 2007-09-13
Snoke N Mirrors
I've always been a fan of Lee Ritenour, anything he does I have to have. I'm a collector of sorts, of a lot Jazz Artists and he is one of them.

Rating:
Date: 2007-07-12
Vintage Lee
Lee Ritenour continues to bring us his honest, professional e wonderful delivery.
No smoke and mirrors in his music... just pure artistry !

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Date: 2007-07-04
"Smoke 'n' Mirrors" Smokes!
I should begin by making you aware of three things: (1) I'm partial. As a musician myself (hornman), I've literally worshipped Lee Ritenour since the first day I heard him play (try "Harlequin" with Dave Grusin!). (2) I plead 'guilty' to purchasing a CD for a single song because you can't get that rendition anywhere else. And (3), being a 70s teenager, the Lee + Patrice Rushen combination was something I simply couldn't pass up. When I added it all up, "I simply had to have "Forget Me Nots." After listening to the tune at least 100 times repeated, my wife suggested I listen to the other tunes on the CD. MAN! I wasn't the least bit disappointed! For me, a tune either "cooks," is "hot" or "smokes" - the threee levels of burn. Lee, Don and Eric REALLY put this one together. If music has to start out "cookin'" for you, this CD is a must!
The Doctor

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