Lee Ritenour - Rio Funk

From the Live in Montreal DVD. Recorded at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 1991.
Musicians:
Lee Ritenour - guitars
Abraham Labories - bass
Gary Novak - drums
Dave Valentin - flute
Ernie Watts - tenor saxophone
David Benoit - keyboards
Don Grusin - keyboards

[@tylerleon8888]

GRP was my first ever concert. I was 4 years old and saw them at the Circle Star Theater, San Carlos CA around his time period. I still remember Lee entering the stage like it was yesterday. Amazing group. Abe is an absolute BEAST!

[@FosterLockwood]

Top 10 funkiest videos on youtube... This makes it.

[@nuno1959]

all of them MONSTER MUSICIANS but….Abraham Laboriel ? WOW !! Out of this world

[@choochoo5268]

Just awesome performance. These guys can jam. Musicians excellence.

[@LesPauloCaster]

damn! why does it have to be so good!!!!?? it causes euphoria! i bet my ass this's been one of the best jazz concerts ever in history!

[@arnoldgratacos5460]

Awesome number that Rio Funk...

[@MatNewtonTrio]

Dave was something else. Such a great composition and a fabulous band.

[@josephm.2856]

Lee and Ernie Watts.......amazing.

[@jimneely2052]

To bad there was no energy on stage... smiles. EXCELLENCE. WOW!!!!

[@adautosemog2604]

Transcendental interpretação 🎶🎸🎷 sincronia perfeita 🎶

[@thomasfebyanto6003]

This video is the best Rio Funk. I have watched 1979 version with bassist Marcus Miller, 1985 version with GRP, and the other. God bless you

[@adhiekurniawan5811]

Wow... So cool... congratulation to lee ritenour n grp all Star... Good job...!!! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@luisguerrero1767]

Abraham Laboriel ... Lee Ritenour .... O MY GOOOD !!!!!!

[@selwynfrancis6638]

great performance by great artist

[@marbanak]

Lee Ritenour - All Class.

[@nukeistheone]

i saw Lee in Java Jazz Festival 2009, he's still awesome!

[@juninhoBragabass]

SAMBA BRASIL THANKS ABE LABORIEL!!!

[@danielkannan6246]

When the Divine gives you a gift, you work hard, give your all, blood, sweat & tears & stay humble… this is the product… timeless divinely inspired straight to the heart M U S I C 🤩

[@vincetamargo5973]

am amazed so great!

[@Zamrise1]

I had totally forgotten this track, then it popped in after taking a stroll thru snarky puppy Lingus, it takes me straight back to uni getting blazed up with friends, what a laugh that shit was xD

[@realan29libra]

Просто красавчики какие-то! Подняли настроение! Спасибо!

[@charm042]

awesome!!!... always love the great Dave Valentine.

[@sohrabjabari5979]

Thanks al of you

[@Isacdelamau]

Yeah, he's awesome

[@konstantinvodopjanov5269]

Fantastisch!!!

[@johnyoung4529]

Fabulous!

[@rootsradicals87]

el glamour de esta era es notoria

[@kermitefrog64]

Wow! Great Funky Smooth Jazz. I have this on an old CD called GRP. I believe it was for Grusin and Ritenour but the other letter escapes me.

[@leonpetersen7346]

Grusin-Rosen Productions

[@szwedzkiPL]

Also, Benoit's solo seems a little underappreciated. So funky, made the gutiarists smiling & dancing ☺

[@kallebriede]

hahaha- GIT+BASS... +++thats it my friend

[@rafaellopez5565]

Flute......our puertorrican pride from Mayaguez.....The Hawk Dave Valentin....

[@fancedll7329]

베이스가.. 마커스 밀러와는 또다른 감동을 주는군요

[@Kankokugobankyokai]

fanced ll 투박한데 그루브가장난아니죠?

[@thomasfebyanto43]

Many bassist cover Rio Funk version with Marcus Miller, can any bassist cover Abraham Laboriel on this song?

[@kipanshi]

This is an amazing Rio Funk version, this was shot 29 years ago and it's still one of the best. I was learning this tune when I was studying in the guitar college in 2004 Insane level of musicianship.

[@kavemankarl2588]

Right on! Of the myriad versions of that song I have seen/heard there is only one that I dig as much as this one. I'm talking about Lee's 2009 performance at the North Sea Jazz Festival, a very energetic blues-rock-fusion rendition. This one in Montreal sits closer to its Latin beat origins but there's already an undertone of something heavier in it. Nicely done.

[@condocord7544]

song never started

[@niwdeeel]

WOo Abaraham Laboriel!

[@dorianreu]

Abe's dance is EPIC! :)

[@abeno666]

懐かしい～！ カッコイイね！

[@prod.jun_ssup]

Wow i wish i can do as even half much of dat bassist

[@noelzhu1986]

Amazing bassist

[@tatsuhirosato7405]

what the hell, whats david benoit doing there, I LOVE YOU DAVID B!!!!!

[@Coowallsky]

Why not, David?

[@sukhmeet98]

I'm c

[@dennylibertario2246]

Because he was coming up the GRP and smooth jazz genre career ladder at the time and thus performing with all the main-line talent of the era. Makes perfect sense that he is on stage here, earning his chops.

[@gwapongmaniac]

wow!!!!!! :O

[@kinnoreebhattacharyya3330]

Allah!! Ki bajiyecho guru ... Matha noshto hoye jacche boss..

[@Naftasy]

Groooovus!!

[@rosembergfer]

Surreal 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@elatrassi]

WOULD HAVE LOVED TO HEAR THE PIANO LOUDER BUT ALL IN ALL GREAT STUFF

[@wahyupragotokesumo6856]

Yeeeaaaahhhhh 🎉

[@pastlife1773]

Hang on, I gotta pick my mug up off the floor. That intro had me making the ugly face.

[@andrewirobinson]

Just a quiet night in for the lads then.....

[@caberawit5052]

hebohhh deh kalo jago2 pd ngumpul...wuuuiihh

[@Jaxpapa1]

Not a classic style of fusion, but this song gets the job done. Aggressive but functional because it can take you where you want to go.

[@tomrecnqn]

Great!, but it´s Abraham Laboriel

[@diannurul412]

🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@mrbassman1972]

i like the bass player abraham laboriel...hes using a gibson bass which not many bass players used at that time...he made Lee sound 1000 times better and had fun doing it

[@JRock1900]

CORRECTION: Kevin Costner on guitar

[@CARLOS.ALARCON.producer]

y2rock with long hair..jojojo

[@fxAxBxo]

8:00 HOW IN THE WORLD CAN HE DO IT? haha Abe is amazing

[@威至]

好听！

[@edgaruribe3658]

David Benoit

[@MrCristianalber]

ups los compartiii en otro video q esta musica era parecida a la de una cancion cristiana llamada me fotalezco de la banda torre fuerte pero revisando esta banda fue la creadora de esta musica que tomaron los de torre fuerte para ponerla en la cancion me fortalezco.....

[@herazo4408]

Me fortalezco de torre fuerte 😅

[@dhruvakumarrevanoor29]

Oooph.

[@joseantoniorobledotorres2520]

All music GRP.

[@visog]

AL plays the living shit out of a bass guitar.......

[@sebastianballestas778]

He fucking raped that bass

[@mrpeaches151]

Ron Burgandy in his younger years of the jazz flute

[@bobborowick12]

saw him live years ago w/foreplay /awesome

[@and868]

Ramón Madruga \o/

[@ranggasaktibudiputra1547]

That snare at 07:30 sounds very unique, anyone know the name of such equipment?

[@MyLinkedinPowerForum]

A better thing to do with ourselves than all this immature warring...

[@invalide]

p r e a c h b r o t h e r r r r rr r r r r r rrr

[@MrX-mh9by]

Abraham Laboriel? :0

[@utsavmajumdar7825]

Didn't know Freddie Mercury plays flute

[@Coqui-Media]

RIP... my old friend ... David Valentin on flute. Ritenour continues to be an influence on my playing 40 years later ;-)

[@John2E0GTU]

Mr Valentin had a great personality on stage as well as being a fantastic musician.

[@Mike77154]

Its a litte sad that he wants to be saxophonist in first place instead of flute player

[@Coqui-Media]

@@Mike77154 He was a talented man for sure. He originally started out as a percussionist which explains so much - why he played the way he did. Damned good keyboardist also. We all used to get together in a friend's basement on the CrossBronx Expressway; some absolutely great memories right there. He was a good friend and mentor who introduced me to some amazing players and did so much to put the jazz in my then heavy rock styling.

[@josephmoss8680]

Is that ernie watts on sax?

[@adrianaberkyova3446]

@@josephmoss8680 áno.Ernie Wats.Skvely jeden z najlepších saxofonistov.Milujem túto muziku jazz Lee je neskutočný.Najlepsi!!! Abraham Laboriel je môj miláčik,tie grimasi asi čo hádže keď hrá.Proste jazz je najlepšia hudba ziad

[@szwedzkiPL]

This is quite possibly the funkiest jazz band performance ever captured

[@lungilenhleko1587]

Abe, I wonder if this man everget angry. All the videos I've seen him, he's always smiling and enjoying that bass. I saw him in Johannesburg with Lee and Patrice Rushen. Enjoy your bass old man.

[@craighenry802]

If you'd ask him, he'd tell you that it's the joy of the Lord!

[@Archer335]

Abe Laboriel is just such a wonderful player. And that kid on stage with him - Ritenour? - might make it some day. 😂 😂 On the serious side: Rio is a fantastic album.

[@gohuskies583]

Killer bass solo. Abe is da man!

[@beameup64]

Abe does not stand still.

[@taleinz1]

Holy crap , is this what heaven sounds like 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶❤️❤️❤️

[@aguaraguazu8461]

R.I.P. Dave Valentín :(

[@lennoxbraithwaite3847]

Aguara Guazu I only heard through a friend this wonderful flautist had passed I felt very old and mortal, but thank you for all the music Dave still got all my GRP vinyl to listen to R.I.P Dave

[@shaunmcdonough9016]

It was a great loss to the jazz world as a whole and to Latin jazz in particular (both when he died and when his first stroke left him unable to perform). But the music he made lives on. It was a great treat for me to find this video of him performing with Lee Ritenour today.

[@itadrummer1]

Ah those Yamaha Recording Custom drums from the late 1980s.....Best performing drums ever( along with Gretsch Broadkaster )

[@BadSneakers]

Victor Wooten mentions Abe as one of his influences, saying Abe was doing a certain technique way before other bassists

[@kavemankarl2588]

Slap. Marcus Miller also mentions Laboriel as a pioneer of the style.

[@kavemankarl2588]

@@shanebarbermusic True indeed. Wooten being a full generation younger than Laboriel it makes sense that he would've been influenced by the latter when he was still growing up. In the case of Miller, he (Marcus) said Laboriel was an inspiration of his dating back to his pre-Miles Davis years. I reckon he's about 20 or so years younger than Laboriel. While Miller sometimes plays slap it almost always has funk overtones as it sits well with fusion. He's also somewhat more aggressive in style while Wooten seems to prefer the fundamentals and smaller bands, often trios.

[@no_name797]

real music played live by real musicians

[@konan3968]

As opposed to what? What is fake music?

[@konan3968]

Are there fake musicians?

[@konan3968]

How deep do you want to take this conspiracy

[@calvinjoshua4621]

@@konan3968 i guess he's trying to say that this is how music should be. Musicians should be able to play on the same level whether it is live or in studio, unlike the pop stars today.

[@RogersPhotographyGuilford]

It's a beautiful thing when everyone speaks the same language!

[@TheLegal77]

Abraham Laboriel, ¡orgullo mexicano!

[@guillermorodriguez8488]

un fenomeno

[@linosdial]

Dave Benoit on piano is phenomenal!!!

[@argerm57]

I really miss Dave Valentin. Also, so many great musicians here, too many to mention by name.

[@kevincorr2985]

Credits should be given on videos.

[@JazzBass7]

I just love how the spirit of Abe Laboriel's solo changed everything. I'm so glad that drummer joined in and he coined in properly. Not many people reach Abe's age and none the less can do what he do while doing what he loves to do. This guy is truly a blessing. And to my ignorance I actually didn't like him or his playing. Since then, I've grown as a respectable musician and see why he plays why he does. He plays how his soul feels...like a child with candy in one hand and a toy in the other :)

[@raulvargas4377]

Look what happens when some one is having fun and they share. Blast the funk turn it a loose' no mercy take the roof off the sucker. Thanks lee you got the BEAT shouda seen my feet. Ultra cool space truckin.

[@RonnieSLM]

Dave Valentin Damnnnnnnnnnnnn Best Flute I can remember hearing!! Abraham Labories on Bass Ok as I continue to Listen there is nothing but Great Talent on this Stage!!

[@dennylibertario2246]

That is the great David Benoit on keyboard prior to his arrival and recordings....he is a stellar talent on piano and compositions.

[@maurosacchini998]

Laboriel not Labories

[@maurosacchini998]

LaborieL - not LaborieS - Abe Bass - Abe Laboriel the great - master of technique and souls . Thanks!!!

[@marcioangelo]

Abraham Laboriel is the guy!!!!

[@DavisSchulz]

awesome!!

[@herreirikhodnemyr7292]

Enourmous piano solo! The great David Benoit!

[@szwedzkiPL]

It's underrated. I can't get eough of how funky it is!

[@stefanwolff2550]

8:27 8:34 8:36 8:38

[@townnbee123]

こんなすばらしいライブ今まで見たことない！！ありがとう！

[@tony.guitarplayer]

Freddie Mercury on Flute

[@MrHenbis]

Great music. Is Don Grusin the younger brother of Dave Grusin? Abraham Laboriel is one of the best.. I saw Him live.

[@hindrastutiwhp7831]

Master guitar Accoustic Lee Retenour..

[@szwedzkiPL]

I read he ws at one point considered to be the no. 1 guitarist in the world. Captain Fingers, his nickname, sasys it all :)

[@shaunhamilton8217]

Some of the best bass playing ever made!

[@victorhampton5958]

I'm a 1963 👶 and love the music today just as it was yesterday and more TOMORROW

[@ManfredElsingBielefeld]

yes!

[@SAMR33]

It must be MAD fun to be one of the musician in the band!!!!!

[@mysalvationendures]

That flute though... Wow! Glad to know the name, David Valentine!

[@shaunmcdonough9016]

"Valentin". He was a truly great musician

[@randyjones280]

Unbelievable, they speak the same language and never say a word 🙄

[@PigInFlight]

lol at 8:07 abraham is chasing lee aroun the stage XD