''Earth Run'' is the fifteenth studio album by

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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 April 1986 through

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 ...

."Earth Run - Lee Ritenour"
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''. RhythmOne. Retrieved February 16, 2020. The album reached number ten on the ''

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'' Jazz Albums chart in the United States and received a

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nomination for Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental. The title track was also nominated for Best Instrumental Composition.

Critical reception

Richard S. Ginell at

awarded ''Earth Run'' 2.5 stars out of 5, calling it "a more interesting record than most of its immediate predecessors" and noting the "peculiarly fuzzy, futuristic sound" of Ritenour's SynthAxe guitar synthesizer (as depicted on the cover art; one of nine different guitars used on the album). He also listed "The Sauce" and the cover of

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's "Butterfly" as highlights.

Track listing

Personnel

*Lee Ritenour – guitar, SynthAxe,

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(tracks 1–3, 5–9), production *

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– lead vocals (track 3) *

Maurice White Maurice White (December 19, 1941 – February 4, 2016) was an American singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer. He was best known as the founder, leader, main songwriter, and producer of the band Earth, Wind & Fire, and served as the ...

– vocals (track 3) *Tommy Funderburk – vocals (track 3) *

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 * Tom Scott –

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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 ...

– SynthAxe programming (tracks 1, 2), synthesizer programming (track 3) * Dave Grusin – keyboard (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 9), piano, arrangement (tracks 2, 4, 7, 9), executive production * Don Grusin – keyboard (track 7), synthesizer (track 4) *Greg Mathieson – keyboard (track 5), bass synthesizer (track 5), arrangement (track 5), producer * David Foster – keyboard (track 3), bass synthesizer, (track 3), arrangement (track 3) * Carlos Vega – drums (tracks 1–3, 5–7, 9) *

Harvey Mason Harvey William Mason (born February 22, 1947) is an American jazz drummer, record producer, and member of the band Fourplay. Mason, who attended Berklee in the 1960s, received an Honorary Doctorate at Berklee's 2015 Commencement Ceremony for ...

– drums (track 8) * Paulinho da Costa – percussion * Jimmy Johnson – bass (tracks 1, 4, 7, 9) * Abraham Laboriel – bass (tracks 2, 6) *Marcus Ryle – SynthAxe programming (tracks 1, 2), synthesizer programming (track 7) *Casey Young – synthesizer programming (track 5) *Jerry Hey – horn arrangement (track 1) *Larry Rosen – executive production

Charts

References

External links

Earth Run
at Lee Ritenour's official site {{Authority control 1986 albums GRP Records albums Lee Ritenour albums Albums produced by Dave Grusin