Ralph Towner
USA
Born: 01 March 1940
Years Active: 70, 80, 90, 2000
Styles: Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Folk Jazz, Contemporary Folk, Third Stream, Free Jazz, Modern Creative
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One of the founders of Oregon, Ralph Towner is one of the few modern jazz musicians to specialize on acoustic guitar. His playing often stretches beyond the boundaries of conventional jazz into world music and is quite distinctive. He started playing piano when he was three and trumpet at five, performing in a dance band when he was 13. Towner studied classical guitar in Vienna and played with classical chamber groups in the mid-'60s. After moving to New York in 1969, Towner worked with Jimmy Garrison, Jeremy Steig, and Paul Winter's Winter Con...
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