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Open Letter (Ralph Towner Album)
''Open Letter'' is an album by guitarist Ralph Towner recorded in 1991 and 1992 and released on the ECM Records, ECM label.ECM discography accessed October 6, 2011 Reception The Allmusic review by Rick Anderson awarded the album 3 stars, stating, "Ralph Towner's a difficult case. The snoozy noodlings of his former band Oregon (band), Oregon can be downright stupefying, but his solo work is often, though not always, quite a bit more interesting. ''Open Letter'' walks both sides of the line, but succeeds more often than it fails.Anderson, RAllmusic Review accessed October 6, 2011 Track listing :''All compositions by Ra ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Towner
Ralph Towner (born March 1, 1940) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion, trumpet and French horn. Biography Towner was born into a musical family in Chehalis, Washington, United States. His mother was a piano teacher and his father a trumpet player. Towner learned to improvise on the piano at the age of three. He began his career as a conservatory-trained classical pianist, attending the University of Oregon from 1958-1963, where he also studied composition with Homer Keller. He studied classical guitar at the Vienna Academy of Music with Karl Scheit from 1963–64 and 1967-68. He joined world music pioneer Paul Winter's "Consort" ensemble in the late 1960s. He first played jazz in New York City in the late 1960s as a pianist and was strongly influenced by the renowned jazz pianist Bill Evans. He began improvising on classical and 12-string guitars in the lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
