Track length: | 11:03 |
Artist: | Ralph Towner |
Performer: | Jon Christensen drums |
Eberhard Weber bass, cello | |
Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones, flute | |
Ralph Towner 12-string and classical guitars, piano, French horn | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Composer: | Ralph Towner |
ISRC: | DEB337406001 |
Track length: | 2:36 |
Artist: | Ralph Towner |
Performer: | Jon Christensen drums |
Eberhard Weber bass, cello | |
Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones, flute | |
Ralph Towner 12-string and classical guitars, piano, French horn | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Composer: | Ralph Towner |
ISRC: | DEB337406002 |
Track length: | 7:01 |
Artist: | Ralph Towner |
Performer: | Jon Christensen drums |
Eberhard Weber bass, cello | |
Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones, flute | |
Ralph Towner 12-string and classical guitars, piano, French horn | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Composer: | Ralph Towner |
ISRC: | DEB337406003 |
Track length: | 6:31 |
Artist: | Ralph Towner |
Performer: | Jon Christensen drums |
Eberhard Weber bass, cello | |
Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones, flute | |
Ralph Towner 12-string and classical guitars, piano, French horn | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Composer: | Ralph Towner |
ISRC: | DEB337406004 |
Track length: | 4:02 |
Artist: | Ralph Towner |
Performer: | Jon Christensen drums |
Eberhard Weber bass, cello | |
Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones, flute | |
Ralph Towner 12-string and classical guitars, piano, French horn | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Composer: | Ralph Towner |
ISRC: | DEB337406005 |
Track length: | 4:15 |
Artist: | Ralph Towner |
Performer: | Jon Christensen drums |
Eberhard Weber bass, cello | |
Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones, flute | |
Ralph Towner 12-string and classical guitars, piano, French horn | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Composer: | Ralph Towner |
ISRC: | DEB337406006 |
Track length: | 1:19 |
Artist: | Ralph Towner |
Performer: | Jon Christensen drums |
Eberhard Weber bass, cello | |
Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones, flute | |
Ralph Towner 12-string and classical guitars, piano, French horn | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Composer: | Ralph Towner |
ISRC: | DEB337406007 |
Track length: | 4:08 |
Artist: | Ralph Towner |
Performer: | Jon Christensen drums |
Eberhard Weber bass, cello | |
Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones, flute | |
Ralph Towner 12-string and classical guitars, piano, French horn | |
Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
Composer: | Ralph Towner |
ISRC: | DEB337406008 |
Ralph Towner 12-string and classical guitars, piano, French horn
Jan Garbarek soprano and tenor saxophones, flute
Eberhard Weber bass, cello
Jon Christensen drums
Recorded February 1977
Musical innovation is no easy feat. It not only requires an innate talent, but also a devotion to the art that is not blinded by the commercial glare of the popular culture. Ralph Towner is such an innovator on the modern musical landscape, his ideas ever fresh, though they span a career of more than thirty years.
Best known as the lead composer, guitarist, and keyboardist for the acoustic jazz ensemble "Oregon", Towner has also had a rich and varied solo career that has seen fruitful and memorable musical collaboration with such great modern musicians as Gary Burton, John Abercrombie, Egberto Gismonti, Larry Coryell, Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, and Gary Peacock.
Towner was born in Chehalis, Washington on March 1st, 1940 into a musical family, his mother a piano teacher and his father a trumpet player. Towner and his siblings were raised in a nurturing and empowering environment that encouraged free musical experimentation and expression. In 1958, Towner enro...