GRP's generally well-chosen 1991 collection of Rit covers an entire decade of releases from Elektra and GRP. As such, those years seem to form a late-'70s plateau descending into a commercial valley by the early part of the '80s and then gradually ascending a slope as Ritenour's playing grows and deepens in the decade's final years. Some of the high points for one listener are the Latin-inflected numbers from Festival ("Latin Lover") and Portrait ("Asa") and two excellent straight-ahead excerpts from Stolen Moments ("24th Street Blues," "Waltz for Carmen"); the latter two with lots of Wes Montgomery-like octave work. And even "Is It You," Lee's pop hit from 1981, comes off as a good, catchy piece of recordmaking. Recommended for those who only want a sample of Ritenour's voluminous solo output. — Richard S. Ginell