Lee Ritenour, Marcus Miller and George Duke have played together in the past, but in this episode they perform with energy, creativity and as though they had been playing together for years. Master guitarist and contemporary jazz legend Lee Ritenour, keyboardist George Duke and the phenomenal bassist/producer Marcus Miller perform together and share the musical progressions that led to the creation of the various sub-genres that we call "contemporary jazz." The trail ranges from the soul/R&B/funk inflected jazz beginning in the late 1950s into the '60s with artists such as Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock and Ramsey Lewis; the creation of Rock Fusion in the late 60s and into the 1970s by artists like Miles Davis, Weather Report and Chick Corea; the melding of pop and jazz in the 1980s with artists such as Spyro Gyra, the Yellowjackets, and Lee himself, and on into the Smooth Jazz era that characterizes contemporary jazz today.