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Ralph Towner (b. Chehalis, Washington, March 1, 1940) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion and trumpet. Biography Born in 1940 in Chehalis, Washington, Towner has made notable recordings of jazz, classical music, folk music, and world music. He began his career as a conservatory-trained classical pianist, who picked up guitar in his senior year in college, then joined world music pioneer Paul Winter's "Consort" ensemble in the late 1960s. Along with bandmates Paul McCandless, Glen Moore, and Collin Walcott, Towner left the Winter Consort in 1970 to form the group Oregon, which over the course of the 1970s issued a number of highly influential records mixing folk music, Indian classical forms, and avant-garde jazz-influenced free improvisation. At the same time, Towner began a longstanding relationship with the influential ECM record label, which has released...

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Discography

City of Eyes, 1989
Anthem, 2001
Ana, 1997
If You Look Far Enough, 1993
Batik, 1989
Matchbook, 1974
Verso, 2000
Solstice, Sound and Shadows, 1977
Blue Sun, 2001
Old Friends, New Friends, 1979
Lost and Found, 1995
If Summer Had Its Ghosts, 1997
Trios / Solos, 1973
Five Years Later, 1982
Sargasso Sea, 2008
Solstice, 1974
Départ, 1980
Diary, 1973
Chiaroscuro, 2008
Open Letter, 1992
A Closer View, 1998
Slide Show
Oracle
Time Line, 2006

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1:39pm May 16

Song	Riding On The D Train
Artist	Ralph Towner
Album	45th Parallel
Label	CBS Records
Year	1989

4:29pm May 14

Song	Wistful Thinking
Artist	Ralph Towner
Album	Chiaroscuro
Label	ECM
Year	2009

2:54am May 12

Song	Gaya
Artist	Ralph Towner
Album	Oracle
Label	ECM Records
Year	1994

11:12am May 9

Song	Doubled Up
Artist	Ralph Towner
Album	Chiaroscuro
Label	ECM
Year	2009

6:18am May 6

Song	Blue In Green
Artist	Ralph Towner
Album	Chiaroscuro
Label	ECM
Year	2009

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