''This Is Love'' is a studio album by American guitarist

Lee Ritenour Lee Mack Ritenour ( ; born January 11, 1952) is an American jazz guitarist who has been active since the late 1960s. Biography Ritenour was born on January 11, 1952, in Los Angeles, California, United States. At the age of eight he started play ...

released in 1998 on

GRP Records GRP® Records (Grusin-Rosen Productions) is a jazz record label founded by Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen (producer), Larry Rosen in 1978. Distributed by Verve Records, GRP® was originally known for its digital recordings that focuses on its jazz ...

. The album reached No. 4 on the ''

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'' Contemporary Jazz Albums chart.

Overview

Artists such as

Lisa Fischer Lisa Fischer (born December 1, 1958) is an American singer and songwriter. She found success with her 1991 debut album ''So Intense'', which produced the Grammy Award–winning hit single "How Can I Ease the Pain". She has been a back-up singer ...

and

Phil Perry Philip Eugene Perry (born January 12, 1952) is an American R&B singer, songwriter, musician and a former member of the soul group, The Montclairs, from 1971 to 1975. He was also known for performing the opening song to Disney’s sitcom, ''Goof ...

appear upon the album.

Covers

Ritenour covers "Alfie's Theme" by

Sonny Rollins Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, he has recorded over sixty albums as a ...

and "Baltimore" by

Randy Newman Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist known for his Southern American English, Southern-accented singing style, early Americana (music), Americana-influenced songs (often ...

on the album.

Critical reception

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noted that Ritenour "has grown as a mature jazz artist on this album".

Track listing

Personnel

– arrangements, synthesizers (1-4, 6-8), guitars (1-9, 11), bass (1, 7, 8), drum programming (1-4, 7, 8), BGV arrangements (4), acoustic guitars (10) * Bob James –

Fender Rhodes The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...

(3) * Ronnie Foster –

Hammond B3 organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs ...

(5, 9), organ bass (5) * Alan Pasqua – Fender Rhodes (6), acoustic piano (9-11) *

Melvin Lee Davis Melvin Lee Davis is an American bass player, vocalist, keyboard player, producer, TV composer and engineer based in Orange County, California. He is the music director for Grammy-award winning artist Chaka Khan and has recorded with The Pointer ...

– bass (2-4, 11), bass pops (8) *

James Genus James Genus (January 20, 1966) is an American jazz bassist. He plays both electric bass guitar and upright bass and currently plays in the Saturday Night Live Band. Genus has performed as a session musician and sideman throughout his career, havin ...

– electric bass (6), acoustic bass (9, 10) * Sonny Emory – drums (2-10) *

Dave Weckl Dave Weckl (born January 8, 1960 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American jazz fusion drummer and the leader of the Dave Weckl Band. He was inducted into the ''Modern Drummer'' Hall of Fame in 2000. Biography Weckl started playing his first se ...

– drums (11) * Paulinho da Costa – percussion (3, 4, 6, 7, 11), timbales (7) *

Larry Williams Larry Williams (born Lawrence Eugene Williams, a.k.a. Lawrence Edward Williams; May 10, 1935 – January 7, 1980) was an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter, producer, and pianist from New Orleans, Louisiana. Williams ...

– saxophones (1, 9), keyboards (2, 4, 6, 9), synthesizers (3, 8),

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

(3, 8), alto saxophone (5) *

Bill Evans William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio. His use of impressionist harmony, interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block ch ...

– tenor saxophone (5, 9), soprano saxophone (6) *

Ernie Watts Ernest James Watts (born October 23, 1945) is an American jazz and rhythm and blues saxophonist who plays soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone. He has worked with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and toured with the Rolling Stones. On Frank Zappa's ...

– tenor saxophone (11) * Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone (1-3, 5, 8, 9) * Gary Grant – trumpet (1-3, 5, 8, 9) * Jerry Hey – trumpet (1-3, 5, 8, 9), horn arrangements (1, 5, 9),

flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B, though some ...

(2), additional horn arrangements (3, 8), additional synthesizer arrangements (3, 6, 8) * Ralph Morrison – violin (7, 10, 11) * Frank Becker – additional string sounds (7), synthesizers (10, 11), arrangements (10), programming (11) *

– vocals (4), BGV arrangements (4) *

– vocals (7)

Production

* Michael Fagien – executive producer * Mark Wexler – executive producer * Lee Ritenour – executive producer, producer, additional engineer * Don Murray – producer, recording, mixing, mastering * Bryan Aee – additional engineer * Doug Bohem – assistant engineer * Kevin Dean – assistant engineer * Tom Nellan – assistant engineer * Paul Read – assistant engineer * Robert Vosgien – digital editing at CMS Mastering (Pasadena, CA) * Paul May – additional technical assistance * David McEowan – mastering assistant *

Capitol Studios Capitol Studios are recording studios located at the landmark Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood, California. The studios, which opened in 1956, were initially the primary recording studios for the American record label Capitol Records. While t ...

(Hollywood, CA) – mastering location * Phil Shackleton – computer technical support, music transcription, music copyist * Sari Zee – production coordinator * Patricia Lie – art direction, design * Catherine Ledner – photography * Theodora Kuslan – release coordinator Track information and credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

Charts

References

External links

This Is Love at DiscogsThis Is Love at AllMusic
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