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1 hour ago, Homefromtheforest said:

Watched that a few days ago; amazing footage.  If you explore the site you'll find lots of other ECM related videos!  Just use the search feature.  For example there's a late 70s gig with Garbarek, Towner, and Abercrombie too.

I'll look this evening, I should do that before wondering where there is more

 

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Oregon
Berliner Jazztage, November 2, 1980
Ralph Towner - classical and 12-string guitars, piano 
Collin Walcott - percussion, sitar
Paul McCandless - reeds 
Glenn Moore - double bass 

00:00 - Cloud Dance (Walcott) / (improvisation) (Oregon)
11:17 - Waterwheel (Towner)
22:49 - Beneath An Evening Sky (Towner)
30:38 - Vessel (Towner)

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On 3/1/2016 at 7:00 AM, 7/4 said:

Happy Birthday to Ralph Towner, one of my favorite musicians. He turns 76(!) today.

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Ralph Towner
Landestrost Castle 
May 2007
Carsten Kloß 2007

I wish he played that 12 string a bit more. Seems like most of his albums are 80 percent 6 string classical.

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On 3/1/2008 at 11:30 AM, 7/4 said:

Ralph Towner is the guitar player from the band Oregon. I always really liked his solo ECM recordings. The solo guitar albums are legendary, but one of - maybe, the first - Jazz albums I got was the 1st Solstice album on ECM.

 

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I remember reading about him in Guitar Player when I was a kid. They made him interesting by pointing out that he played Jazz not just on classical guitar, but also on 12-string guitar, so I had to check him out.

Solstice is a really wonderful album.

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37 minutes ago, Milestones said:

Happy birthday to Mr. Towner.

Another thread is discussing Gary Burton, and I must recommend the two collaborations between Towner and Burton: Matchbook and Slide Show.  

Seconded.  ...both the birthday wishes and the Burton/Towner recommendations. ;) 

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