Portrait (Lee Ritenour album)

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Portrait
Lee Ritenour Portrait 1987a Album.png
Studio album by
Released1987
Recorded1987
Studio Sunset Sound (Hollywood, CA)
Starlight Sound (Burbank, CA)
CMS Digital (Pasadena, California)
Genre Jazz fusion, smooth jazz
Length45:00
LanguageEnglish, Portuguese
Label GRP
Producer Lee Ritenour
Lee Ritenour chronology
Earth Run
(1986)
Portrait
(1987)
Festival
(1988)

Portrait is the sixteenth studio album by American jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour, released in 1987 through GRP Records. The album reached No. 7 on the Billboard magazine Contemporary Jazz chart.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Asa" Djavan 5:21
2."Turn the Heat Up"Kelly McNulty, Ritenour, Eric Tagg 4:00
3."Windmill"Ritenour, Harvey Mason 4:20
4."White Water" Russell Ferrante 5:04
5."Portrait"Ritenour, Harvey Mason4:28
6."G-Rit"Ritenour, Kenny G 3:30
7."Shades in the Shade"Ritenour, Tim Landers 4:32
8."Children's Games" Antônio Carlos Jobim 4:20
9."Runaway"Ritenour4:40
10."Route 17"Richard Bauerle, Russell Ferrante, Jimmy Haslip 4:35

Personnel

Production

Charts

Chart (1987)Peak
position
Billboard Jazz Albums [1] 7

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References

  1. "Lee Ritenour US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2013-03-09.