US EditionRalph Towner, Eclectic Guitarist With the Ensemble Oregon, Dies at 85
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The American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Ralph Towner became famous with the fusion band Oregon. However, he mostly set the artistic highlights as a soloist.
Ralph Towner influenced progressive jazz with the band Oregon. He became known with his virtuoso and at the same time intimate style. Now the US musician died at the age of 85. The US jazz musician Ralph Towner, celebrated as master of the twelve string guitar, is dead. The artist died at the age of 85 on Sunday in his chosen home town of Rome, as a speaker of his music label ECM Records of the German Press Agency confirmed.Born in Washington in…
The music world is in mourning. It was announced on Sunday evening that Ralph Towner, a famous American jazz guitarist and star of the band Oregon and numerous other musical projects, had died. He was 85.
Contemporary music lost one of its greatest innovators. Ralph Towner, the guitarist, composer and co-founder of the legendary Oregon group, died at the age of 85. Ralph Towner grew up in a deeply musical environment. His mother was a pianist and organist, and from a young age he received a solid classical piano formation. However, his path to guitar was relatively late: it was not until the late 20s that he decided to devote himself seriously to…
Ralph Towner became famous with his band Oregon, founded in 1970, and released more than two dozen albums.
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