Ralph Towner: Unconcerned with Which Label Is Applied to his Music
The San Diego Troubadour
By JIM TRAGESER
You’ll excuse Ralph Towner if he’s not particularly interested in debates over genres and how to define them.
The guitarist, who has a solo show this month, grew up playing swing jazz on trumpet, then studied classical piano in college, discovered guitar at age 22, and studied in Vienna before moving to New York City. There, in the late 1960s, he co-founding the pioneering world music combo Oregon–and then was signed to the still-young European avant-jazz label ECM for his solo recordings.
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