Ralph Towner With Guest Paul Mccandless at Healdsburg Jazz Festival at Soda Rock Winery

Festival Premiere at Soda Rock Winery

Few artists are as closely associated with ECM Records as Ralph Towner. Each is a Rock of Gibraltar, one an institution, the other a guitarist, each expecting the musical world to come to them, and it does. Each reaching past the stars for a standard of perfection and coming very close to achieving it.

Towner, whose skills on classical and 12-string guitar transcend all genres into a style that’s completely his own, has released 27 albums – solo or collaborations – on ECM, his first in 1972 and most recent, My Foolish Heart, in 2017...

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Festival Premiere at Soda Rock Winery

Few artists are as closely associated with ECM Records as Ralph Towner. Each is a Rock of Gibraltar, one an institution, the other a guitarist, each expecting the musical world to come to them, and it does. Each reaching past the stars for a standard of perfection and coming very close to achieving it.

Towner, whose skills on classical and 12-string guitar transcend all genres into a style that’s completely his own, has released 27 albums – solo or collaborations – on ECM, his first in 1972 and most recent, My Foolish Heart, in 2017. Strangely, only three of the 30 albums he made with Oregon – the band he founded in 1970 with Paul McCandless, Glen Moore, and Colin Walcott – are on ECM, which is a pretty bold statement about his independence.

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