About Ralph Towner
Ralph Towner was an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He played the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, electric FRAME guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion, trumpet, and French horn. At the same time, Towner began a longstanding relationship with the ECM record label, which released virtually all of his non-Oregon recordings beginning with his 1973 album Trios / Solos. From the early 1990s, Towner lived in Italy, first in Palermo and then in Rome. Towner was born into a musical family in Chehalis, Washington, United States, on March 1, 1940.
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