Search - Lee Ritenour :: Friendship & the Captain's Journey

Classic Lee!!!

tws | Michigan | 07/18/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Finally available for the first time on cd Friendship I had this on Lp and was wondering if this would ever be issued on cd and here it is as 2 lps on 1 cd with Captains Journey.These are great maybe Wounded Bird will reissue other Lee titles as 2 on 1 time will tell. Get'em while you can. Highly Recommend!!!"

Friendship -A one hit album jazz wonder like Spyro Gyra's Mo

Tim Lookingbill | New Braunfels, TX. USA | 07/18/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"They were never to be heard from after that one album, but if you want a gem of a collection of imaginatively melodic jazz riffs and licks along the lines of Spyra Gyra's Morning Dance, Dave Samual's Ten Degrees North and ShadowFax's Magic Theatre, this is one jazz nugget of a find.



I caught Friendship one night back in 1980 on Johnny Carson and immediately had to get their album. And I'm not an impulse buyer and I'm very picky with my music selecting. I was also sold when I found Friendship brought onboard Weather Report's percussionist Alex Acuna along with other very accomplished studio musicians to round out a very hip jazz/funk group. There's a slap bass solo piece on the album very much in the style of Weather Report's Jaco Pastorius which played on the Carson show and sold me on the spot.



I don't know about Captain's Journey because I'm not a Lee Ritenour fan. Since there were no follow up Friendship albums I gave up looking. I'm buying the CD just for the Friendship part."