Guitarist Lee Ritenour is offering his longtime home in Malibu up for sale.  The legendary jazz and session player is asking $7.995 million for the Point Dume property.

The home dates to 1979, and is designed in the Contemporary style; it measures about 6,025 square feet, and contains four bedrooms and five baths.

As a classic Contemporary, the house is a shining example: poured concrete, glass and natural-finish hardwood, a staircase in glass, steel, and wood. The interiors are a blend of whitewash and red-earth tone, which sets off the wood nicely.  Floors are hardwood, or gloss limestone tile.

The home’s second floor family living area is a lovely open-concept space, with a raised ceiling and a limestone fireplace. A terrace overlooks the property. The home’s library, Contemporary ornamental windows, and elevator are other highlights of the home. In its day, this house was a bold statement, and it’s abstract approach leaves the vision viable today.

The house also contains an art studio, living room, dining room, and a kitchen that mixes cool and warm tones beautifully into the composition, giving the brushed stainless a good counterweight. Sliding wood and glass partitions offer some optional privacy in the generally open floor plan, and an elevator augments the staircase.

The property exterior features a nifty design flourish: palms interspersed in a grid of concrete. A pool and a good bit of green expanse fill out the acre of grounds.

Lee Ritenour is one of the most versatile session guitarists to come out of the hard-bop, funk and fusion era. He records on Concord; his last studio release was 2015’s ‘A Twist of Rit.’

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