Results for "Ralph Towner"

The Reluctant Bride

Featuring the music of Ralph Towner
Duration: 4:09
August 18, 2006

An Evening with Ralph Towner

by Erik R. Quick
July 20, 2006

Ralph Towner An Die Musik Baltimore, MD June 23, 2006 There is often a predisposition, for whatever reason, to categorize and compartmentalize both the manner of existence and the means of expression. Our food, friends, neighborhoods, automobiles and clothes are all neatly isolated and segregated into predisposed sections meant ...

Ralph Towner: Time Line and Siroko

by Celeste Sunderland
June 10, 2006

Ralph Towner Time Line ECM 2006 Olivier Ker Ourio Siroko Nocturne 2005 As the nylon strings of Ralph Townerâ????s classical guitar or the steel of his 12-string ...

Ralph Towner: Time Line

by John Kelman
April 28, 2006

Few artists have made the art of solo performance a significant part of their body of work. If a pianist is around long enough, you can expect the occasional solo recording. But except for Keith Jarrett, few pianists have made solo performance a fundamental part of their discography. The same applies to the guitar, where Ralph ...

Ralph Towner: Time Line

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
April 25, 2006

In an essay about Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges asserted that great writers create their precursors. Guitarist Ralph Towner makes no secret about the influence of pianist Bill Evans on his musical style. He places “My Man's Gone Now at the end of this new solo recital, raising expectations of an Evans-like record. (Evans didn't compose the ...

Ralph Towner

By Ralph Towner

Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 2004

Anthem

By Ralph Towner

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: 1. Solitary Woman 2. Anthem 3. Haunted 4. The Lutemaker 5. Simone 6. Gloria's Step 7-10. Four Comets 11. Raffish 12. Very Late 13. The Prowler 14-16. Three Comments 17. Goodbye, Pork Pie Hat

Ralph Towner: Anthem

by David Adler
May 1, 2001

Ralph Towner recently turned 60, and his age has only made him more eloquent, more imaginative, more able to cast a spell. Anthem, his new solo guitar record and his 20th title for ECM, is the follow-up to 1997's solo recital, Ana. It also coincides with ECM's reissue of Diary, Towner's 1974 effort, on which he ...

Ralph Towner: Anthem

by C. Andrew Hovan
May 1, 2001

Now in his 61st year, guitarist and composer Ralph Towner can look back on the great tapestry that has made up his musical life over the preceding decades. For the past 30 years he's been associated with ECM Records, a distinction that has allowed him to express his own muse in a way that many artists ...

Ralph Towner: Anthem

by C. Andrew Hovan
May 1, 2001

Now in his 61st year, guitarist and composer Ralph Towner can look back on the great tapestry that has made up his musical life over the preceding decades. For the past 30 years he's been associated with ECM Records, a distinction that has allowed him to express his own muse in a way that many artists ...