I met Ralph after a concert he did with John Abercrombie in Glasgow around 1984. He was very friendly and it was such a privilege to meet them both and hang out for a while. His music was then, and remains probably the biggest influence for me as a musician. Thanks for this wonderful interview.
Fantastic interview allowing Ralph to talk at length. Surely the fact Ralph recorded so much in Norway and Germany gave his music the unique sound those ECM recordings have. Thank goodness for Ralph meeting Manfred Eicher! Timeless beautiful music. ❤️
Thanks Pablo, a fabulous interview!!! Ralph Towner is one of my long standing biggest guitar heroes and musicians of all time. I think he should be mentioned alongside with Pat Metheny, Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock for his innovations and boundless creativity. He defined a genre! I still marvel at most of his solo guitar compositions, trying to understand what the heck he´s doing there, and then he tops it by improvising over them. Not to mention all the stuff with Oregon. I wrote an orchestral piece called Flying in an Evening Sky, guess what the model was for it.
Ralph is such a fantastic composer , one of the best of our times by far !!! Green and Golden , The Silence Of A Candle and The Reluctant Bride are some of my favorite pieces ever!!!
One my biggest influences to date. Thank you immensely for this interview. I briefly met Mr Towner during the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville after seeing him play at this wonderful church. He has always been my major musical influence. His harmonic and lyrical ideas have always influenced my own love of sound and music, to me he's sort of a Debussy of our times, if I may make this comparison. His sense of color, tone, overtone, voicing, harmony melodic motifs and composition is more like a painter's world in a way. He paints through his compositions. So, many thanks for this. It was great to hear him speak on Renaissance music and Baroque playing, and how it formed his playing. I hope you'll get a chance to interview him if the opportunity presents itself again.
Ralph threw me into music when I saw him playing with Oregon in Kronach/Germany… this was before „Crossing“ early 80s. I’ll never forget this life-changing evening… After the concert I said to myself „I want to play the things he plays on the guitar somewhere along the way in my life“ - well, more or less I tried to achieve this - I‘m a guitar teacher, played some of his pieces in concert… but improvising like he does is still lightyears away from my skills. He‘s a giant in music, jazz, composing, guitar… still one of my heroes.
Thank you for this Pablo. I've been a fan of Ralphs and Oregon since the 1970's. I was fortunate to get to know Ralph, Glen and Paul when they were artists in residence here in Ashland, OR for 3 years in a row. The Maestro!
After 48 yrs of following, listening to recordings of RalphTowner, this adds a new dimension to the man and his unique methods. Thank you Pablo and Ralph!
Thank you so much! I have been waiting for such an in-depth interview with Ralph Towner for 30+ years. What a joy! I always mention him to younger musicians I play with, and very often they haven't heard his name. It's so important to keep him on the map, his artistry is beyond compare.
In the early days of ECM Ralph made a big impact on my jazz listening and he has continued to do so. I think this wonderful interview brings out all the reasons for cherishing this truly great musician.
Wonderful. Ralph Towner remains my favorite guitarist for simply too many reasons. I've seen Raloh with Oregon three times here in NYC. He's just that warm and personable. I got to ask him about his Ramirez guitar after one show at "My Father's Place." My favorite album remains "Diary". I've heard most every guitarist from Rock, to Blues, to Fusion, Bluegrass, and back. Ralph is still front and center in my music, and is one of those very special artists. Thank you Raloh, and thank you to the interviewer who did a great job here.
The discussion of legato is so good. Ralph's point about so called easy classical guitar pieces is very important. Most people can't play those easy pieces musically. Good to hear Julian Bream getting a mention.
I played guitar for years with the late, great Nick Brignola. Ralph Towner would send him tunes occasionally which we truly loved to play! I'm blown away by his guitar playing and compositional skills. Thank you so much for this interview!!
Last Tango was; Gato Barbieri. I saw Oregon with Trilok Gurtu. Ralph played some great piano too then. His album with Garbarek..Solstice...was so mesmerising.
An interview/conversation morphing into a master class and back again. Wonderful. Many thanks for this. Ralph has always been right there at the top for me.
Hello Pablo, Thanks for publishing this interview. I am western Canadian based guitarist and had the opportunity to attend a 4 week masterclass series with Ralph and the members or Oregon many years ago. He was amazing then! And of course so were Paul, Colin and Glenn. Their influence inspired me to make a career with music which I continue to do today. Unfortunately I don't have the brilliant mind that Ralph has but I'm still striving for that "perfect" composition and improvisation. All the best, Brad Prevedoros
Ralph is also one of my heroes. I've listened to him for decades going back to Oregon. Still just about everynight I play his Sirius and Spotify channels. Thanks for this great interview and insight into Ralph Towner.
Great insights revealed here... I understand Ralph is not in good health in 2024, hopefully he'll recover and stick around in reasonably good health for several more years.
Now I finally understood why I was always fascinated when listening to Ralph Towner playing - thank you again, Pablo! And Bill Evans actually once was the opener for an Oregon Concert?!
Thank you so much for this fantastic interview Pablo. Met Ralph 2017 in Wuppertal also (after a lot of rain the sun began to shine when Ralph played) and had the great pleasure to have a little chat with him afterwards. Ralph plays straight from the heart and has so much to say in his music. He makes me feel better every time.
Hey Arvin! That's the same concert I where I also met Ralph for the first time. We had dinner together after the show and I asked him tons of questions already there. I'll never forget it!
Thank you for this wonderful interview. I have been following Maestro Towner career for sometime and he is always an inspiration. I dearly hope that he is in good health 🙏. I heard he fell off a stage due to a heart condition. Nice to see him in this interview in good regard. Thank you again for this post keep up the good work.This is so a treat to hear him work out the germ of an idea of a song.His sense of melody and composition are always beautiful and haunting to hear..I will always treasure any interview and live footage of him playing a treasure. He is an American composure, a true treasure. I was fortunate to hear him play in concert in my home town in Northern California and was on bill with two other guitarist separately.And he did a Q and A before his 2nd show and it was quite pleasingly to hear him do this and do a solo performance on his 12 string and classical guitar was the best.
I was amazed by the Moor in "I sing the body electric" of weather report. Calourful with technics never heard of. Aethethetic appreciation fulfilled with alike lover of a first glimpse.
That was wonderful. :-) I still remember with great fondness having a drink and chat with him after a show back in the ‘80’s. He’s still the same, wonderful, affable Ralph. Ralph, thanks also for your wonderful improv method book ! I certainly got a lot of mileage out of that ! . . . and thanks, Pablo ! Very nice. I’ll have to check out some of your other interviews.
Candid, relaxed, informative, and revealing. And brimming with Ralph's infectiously wonderful disposition and humor. Such things come through in all the interviews with Ralph that I've read or listened to over the years. And though I'm reluctant to rate them, this one is at least tied for 1st place. Thanks, so much.
Ralph Towner reminds me a lot of Egberto Gismonti ….Would be great to have heard his comments on him…a giant of a composer improviser player …Great interview thanx
I'm so glad I happened to come across this video. Liked, subscribed, and will be back soon to peruse your UA-cam channel. Thanks for such a wonderful interview with Ralph Towner.
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This is gold...! Thank you for sharing! It's great to see the master creating and smiling! Really appreciate this interview and if you have the possibility of doing more with Ralph or any Oregon member, we'd be very thankful! The gratitude that I have to all Oregon members is just ineffable... Long, happy and peaceful life to all Oregon members! From Chile, thank you so much again and wish you a good day!
When I was a kid I loved Towner. As I learned theory ( And aged ) Ralph became more and more of a 'Hit or miss' kind of musician to me. This is not a bad thing, it just means I have my own ideas and thats a good thing. I'm sure Ralph would agree. But one thing that is very certain.... This interview is a "HIT". Great Job, Pablo!
This was great, sometimes rambly, but a gem of an interview, thank you for doing this! I have seen Ralph play many times 1976-2006 both as a solo artist, and in Oregon 🙂
Before Peacock got his Jarrett gig, Gary and Ralph were playing together quite a bit in Seattle. I was in Peacock's Theory class at that time. But I had been listening to Oregon and Ralph ECM way before that.
@@PabloHeldmusic Well anything he was interested in at that time it seemed like he'd bring it into class. Including correlations between 20th century physics and eastern mysticism. So his ideas about how motivic improvisation is holographic e.g. Bill Evans remains with me. Some things were less useful for me at least like he taught us Schoenberg's rules of functional tonality that was good! but then within those rules have everyone write something that indicated a different tonality. Honestly it was so long ago I've confused some ideas from Jim Knapp who I studied theory with . I really liked some polytonal examples that I use today like tritone,maj7,b7 over a root. He was also brilliant. They both talked about how intervallic distance makes dissonance less so. This is all while he was trying to get his Jarrett gig.
What's most disconcerting is that both Peacock and Jim Knapp are Dead. I'm getting old I'm very happy Towner is still alive and kicking and playing great.
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Hi, Pablo, This is wonderful. I've met Ralph a few times and besides being a tremendous musician he's a nice guy and a great talker. BTW, on 48:30 he's speaking about Gato Barbieri. Shortly after that, John Abercrombie played a couple years on Gato's band.
Thank you Pablo for this amazing opportunity, realy like his work and playing, did you managed to try his guitar, just curious how high is the string action, sounds like a dream anyway.
@@PabloHeldmusic I hope so. I found his performance of it on your Live in Cologne 2021concert.You guys are pretty good too.😉Thank you again for this interview and for your reply.
Thanks Pablo. I am curious what Ralph's thought would be about guitarists/composers like Leo Brouwer or Dusan Bogdanovic. Or doesn't he listen or relate to them?
What a madman - emulating the piano on a guitar ! He'd have been better off doing something useful, like being a pilot for example. Oh well, it takes all sorts ............ Superb interview ( no surprise there ) .
I met Ralph after a concert he did with John Abercrombie in Glasgow around 1984. He was very friendly and it was such a privilege to meet them both and hang out for a while. His music was then, and remains probably the biggest influence for me as a musician. Thanks for this wonderful interview.
Thank you so much, Pablo, for interviewing Ralph. He is one of the most important living musicians for me.
For me too! Thanks for checking this out, Vadim! Hope you're well
Fantastic interview allowing Ralph to talk at length. Surely the fact Ralph recorded so much in Norway and Germany gave his music the unique sound those ECM recordings have. Thank goodness for Ralph meeting Manfred Eicher! Timeless beautiful music. ❤️
Thanks Pablo, a fabulous interview!!! Ralph Towner is one of my long standing biggest guitar heroes and musicians of all time. I think he should be mentioned alongside with Pat Metheny, Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock for his innovations and boundless creativity. He defined a genre! I still marvel at most of his solo guitar compositions, trying to understand what the heck he´s doing there, and then he tops it by improvising over them. Not to mention all the stuff with Oregon. I wrote an orchestral piece called Flying in an Evening Sky, guess what the model was for it.
Ralph is such a fantastic composer , one of the best of our times by far !!! Green and Golden , The Silence Of A Candle and The Reluctant Bride are some of my favorite pieces ever!!!
49:04: Gato Barbieri
Great interview, love Towner really getting into the weeds of his playing and technique.
One my biggest influences to date. Thank you immensely for this interview. I briefly met Mr Towner during the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville after seeing him play at this wonderful church. He has always been my major musical influence. His harmonic and lyrical ideas have always influenced my own love of sound and music, to me he's sort of a Debussy of our times, if I may make this comparison. His sense of color, tone, overtone, voicing, harmony melodic motifs and composition is more like a painter's world in a way. He paints through his compositions. So, many thanks for this. It was great to hear him speak on Renaissance music and Baroque playing, and how it formed his playing. I hope you'll get a chance to interview him if the opportunity presents itself again.
🎯💯
Ralph threw me into music when I saw him playing with Oregon in Kronach/Germany… this was before „Crossing“ early 80s. I’ll never forget this life-changing evening… After the concert I said to myself „I want to play the things he plays on the guitar somewhere along the way in my life“ - well, more or less I tried to achieve this - I‘m a guitar teacher, played some of his pieces in concert… but improvising like he does is still lightyears away from my skills. He‘s a giant in music, jazz, composing, guitar… still one of my heroes.
Thank you for this Pablo. I've been a fan of Ralphs and Oregon since the 1970's. I was fortunate to get to know Ralph, Glen and Paul when they were artists in residence here in Ashland, OR for 3 years in a row. The Maestro!
Thank you Ed!
Ashland, Oregon? That must have been a fantastic time to be involved in music.
Still is.
After 48 yrs of following, listening to recordings of RalphTowner, this adds a new dimension to the man and his unique methods. Thank you Pablo and Ralph!
That’s so cool. Thank you Brian!
❤ this is the greatest gift …
Thank you Pablo 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
thanks for checking it out Vincent!
Thank you so much! I have been waiting for such an in-depth interview with Ralph Towner for 30+ years. What a joy! I always mention him to younger musicians I play with, and very often they haven't heard his name. It's so important to keep him on the map, his artistry is beyond compare.
In the early days of ECM Ralph made a big impact on my jazz listening and he has continued to do so. I think this wonderful interview brings out all the reasons for cherishing this truly great musician.
Who can forget the album Solstice. Possibly my favorite album of all time.
El sax argentino era el Gato Barbieri. Excelente entrevista!! Gracias
Wonderful. Ralph Towner remains my favorite guitarist for simply too many reasons. I've seen Raloh with Oregon three times here in NYC. He's just that warm and personable. I got to ask him about his Ramirez guitar after one show at "My Father's Place." My favorite album remains "Diary". I've heard most every guitarist from Rock, to Blues, to Fusion, Bluegrass, and back. Ralph is still front and center in my music, and is one of those very special artists. Thank you Raloh, and thank you to the interviewer who did a great job here.
That was Gato Barbieri he was referring to. He composed the music for Last Tango in Paris. Fine sax player.
Ralph is why I still love classical guitar after so many years ❤
The discussion of legato is so good. Ralph's point about so called easy classical guitar pieces is very important. Most people can't play those easy pieces musically. Good to hear Julian Bream getting a mention.
Absolutely!
...that was really great.thanks a lot ✌️
Cheers. Thanks for watching!
I played guitar for years with the late, great Nick Brignola. Ralph Towner would send him tunes occasionally which we truly loved to play! I'm blown away by his guitar playing and compositional skills. Thank you so much for this interview!!
Absolutely wonderful interview. I could listen to him talk about New York in the 70s all day long.
Same here ;-)
Last Tango was; Gato Barbieri.
I saw Oregon with Trilok Gurtu. Ralph played some great piano too then. His album with Garbarek..Solstice...was so mesmerising.
This is such a precious series, thank you Pablo! 🙏
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An interview/conversation morphing into a master class and back again. Wonderful. Many thanks for this. Ralph has always been right there at the top for me.
Hello Pablo, Thanks for publishing this interview. I am western Canadian based guitarist and had the opportunity to attend a 4 week masterclass series with Ralph and the members or Oregon many years ago. He was amazing then! And of course so were Paul, Colin and Glenn. Their influence inspired me to make a career with music which I continue to do today. Unfortunately I don't have the brilliant mind that Ralph has but I'm still striving for that "perfect" composition and improvisation. All the best, Brad Prevedoros
thanks for sharing this, Brad! All the best to you, too!
Thanks a lot for this beautiful interview!
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Ralph is also one of my heroes. I've listened to him for decades going back to Oregon. Still just about everynight I play his Sirius and Spotify channels.
Thanks for this great interview and insight into Ralph Towner.
I‘m glad you liked the interview Richard. Thank you!
Great insights revealed here... I understand Ralph is not in good health in 2024, hopefully he'll recover and stick around in reasonably good health for several more years.
Now I finally understood why I was always fascinated when listening to Ralph Towner playing - thank you again, Pablo!
And Bill Evans actually once was the opener for an Oregon Concert?!
Danke DIR Frank!
Thanks for this, Pablo! A great conversation with the master.
Thank you Adam. Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you so much for this fantastic interview Pablo. Met Ralph 2017 in Wuppertal also (after a lot of rain the sun began to shine when Ralph played) and had the great pleasure to have a little chat with him afterwards. Ralph plays straight from the heart and has so much to say in his music. He makes me feel better every time.
Hey Arvin! That's the same concert I where I also met Ralph for the first time. We had dinner together after the show and I asked him tons of questions already there. I'll never forget it!
Thank you for this wonderful interview. I have been following Maestro Towner career for sometime and he is always an inspiration. I dearly hope that he is in good health 🙏. I heard he fell off a stage due to a heart condition. Nice to see him in this interview in good regard. Thank you again for this post keep up the good work.This is so a treat to hear him work out the germ of an idea of a song.His sense of melody and composition are always beautiful and haunting to hear..I will always treasure any interview and live footage of him playing a treasure. He is an American composure, a true treasure. I was fortunate to hear him play in concert in my home town in Northern California and was on bill with two other guitarist separately.And he did a Q and A before his 2nd show and it was quite pleasingly to hear him do this and do a solo performance on his 12 string and classical guitar was the best.
thank you Michael!
Keep up the good work,look forward to more presentations!!!!
I was amazed by the Moor in "I sing the body electric" of weather report.
Calourful with technics never heard of. Aethethetic appreciation fulfilled with alike lover of a first glimpse.
Wonderful, thanks. So glad we had the opportunity to see him up close at Pizza Express in London last year.
Cool! Solo, or which line up was it?
@@PabloHeldmusic Solo
@@PabloHeldmusic seen this one? ua-cam.com/video/dvKchhYy3SQ/v-deo.html
@@smg4911 I haven’t! Thx for sharing
That was wonderful. :-)
I still remember with great fondness having a drink and chat with him after a show back in the ‘80’s.
He’s still the same, wonderful, affable Ralph.
Ralph, thanks also for your wonderful improv method book ! I certainly got a lot of mileage out of that !
. . . and thanks, Pablo ! Very nice. I’ll have to check out some of your other interviews.
Thanks for this Glenn. Hope you enjoy the other episodes!
Thanks a lot Pablo for this precious interview ❤️🙏
Thank you for watching it! I’m glad we can all learn together from the greats
Candid, relaxed, informative, and revealing. And brimming with Ralph's infectiously wonderful disposition and humor. Such things come through in all the interviews with Ralph that I've read or listened to over the years. And though I'm reluctant to rate them, this one is at least tied for 1st place. Thanks, so much.
That’s so kind John. Thanks for these words.
Ralph Towner reminds me a lot of Egberto Gismonti ….Would be great to have heard his comments on him…a giant of a composer improviser player …Great interview thanx
I'm so glad I happened to come across this video. Liked, subscribed, and will be back soon to peruse your UA-cam channel. Thanks for such a wonderful interview with Ralph Towner.
Thank you for these kind words. Have fun exploring the other interviews!
Thank you Pablo I've been a fan of Ralph for years this is awesome, best wishes ✨✨
Thank you Dan! I’m glad you like it. Take care!
that mans twelve string is an orchestra. perhaps the greatest piano/guitarist of our time
Right now I'm listening to Spirit Lake from Solo Concert and your comment really resonates.
Absolutely fantastic interview. Grateful.
Thank you Tim!
Thanks for this interview Pablo!, and for all the information and incredible musicians that you have interviewed on this space.
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This is gold...! Thank you for sharing! It's great to see the master creating and smiling! Really appreciate this interview and if you have the possibility of doing more with Ralph or any Oregon member, we'd be very thankful! The gratitude that I have to all Oregon members is just ineffable... Long, happy and peaceful life to all Oregon members! From Chile, thank you so much again and wish you a good day!
thank you!
I think the Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell is very underrated. He did some amazing things on classical guitar.
Thank you so much! Greetings from Slovakia!
Thank you! There's not many good interviews with Ralph. This one's great! So good to see he is still going strong.
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When I was a kid I loved Towner. As I learned theory ( And aged ) Ralph became more and more of a 'Hit or miss' kind of musician to me. This is not a bad thing, it just means I have my own ideas and thats a good thing. I'm sure Ralph would agree. But one thing that is very certain.... This interview is a "HIT". Great Job, Pablo!
Great interview, thanks!
Thank you Javier
This was great, sometimes rambly, but a gem of an interview, thank you for doing this! I have seen Ralph play many times 1976-2006 both as a solo artist, and in Oregon 🙂
Love & great respect Mr. Towner 🙏
Absolutely lovely interview. Thank you!
What a great interview! Fascinating!
Cheers Carlos!
Great Interview !! Thanks for this !!
Cheers Jerry
Excelente entrevista Pablo 👌un Joya gracias me suscribo Saludos desde Santiago de Chile .
Ralph a favorite since I heard him with Oregan in Stockholm in the 70ies . 😊
cool!
There are very few interviews with Ralph Towner…thanks so much for this !!
thank you! I'm glad Ralph agreed to do this with me. You're absolutely right, there aren't many interviews of him out there...
Thank you for all the work to get these interviews done. Great job Pablo!
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Pablo ! You did a great job ! I hope you can make more videorecorded talks with Ralph!
Thank you! Hope so too
Great interview with one of my favorite musicians. Thank you, Pablo!
thank you Alexey!
Amazing insight into his compositional approach! I think he was referring to Gato Barbieri-Argentine sax player
yes I think so too. Had to do the background check myself after the interview ;-)
Before Peacock got his Jarrett gig, Gary and Ralph were playing together quite a bit in Seattle. I was in Peacock's Theory class at that time. But I had been listening to Oregon and Ralph ECM way before that.
oh cool! What was it like to study theory with Gary Peacock?
@@PabloHeldmusic Well anything he was interested in at that time it seemed like he'd bring it into class. Including correlations between 20th century physics and eastern mysticism. So his ideas about how motivic improvisation is holographic e.g. Bill Evans remains with me. Some things were less useful for me at least like he taught us Schoenberg's rules of functional tonality that was good! but then within those rules have everyone write something that indicated a different tonality. Honestly it was so long ago I've confused some ideas from Jim Knapp who I studied theory with . I really liked some polytonal examples that I use today like tritone,maj7,b7 over a root. He was also brilliant. They both talked about how intervallic distance makes dissonance less so. This is all while he was trying to get his Jarrett gig.
What's most disconcerting is that both Peacock and Jim Knapp are Dead. I'm getting old I'm very happy Towner is still alive and kicking and playing great.
@@PabloHeldmusic I remember most that he shared his deep love/respect for Bill Evans.
Perhaps the greatest acoustic guitarist ever....
Really love this series. I have gotten so much from listening to these interviews. Thank you!
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Thank you for this treasure
🙏
Great !Thank you 🎵🎶
Excellent interview & thank you for this GREAT insight into Ralph Towner ! Subscribed !
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Wonderful. Thanks Pablo.
Mitch! you're always one of the first to check out the new episodes. I appreciate it!
Gold!
The life you were born to live.
Hi, Pablo,
This is wonderful. I've met Ralph a few times and besides being a tremendous musician he's a nice guy and a great talker.
BTW, on 48:30 he's speaking about Gato Barbieri. Shortly after that, John Abercrombie played a couple years on Gato's band.
Thanks Guillermo!
Thanks Guillermo!
Danke! Du machst eine tolle Arbeit (wenn auch vielleicht nur für ein kleines Publikum) mit den Interviews.
Danke Michael - Du kannst den Podcast gerne weiter empfehlen ;-)
Bravo , Pablo! Bravo, Ralph!!!
cheers Maxim!
great masterclass! thank you
yeah I guess it is kind of like a masterclass ;-)
Thank you, subscribed....
welcome and thank you!
thank you
You’re welcome Winston!
Thanks so much! Is there a part 2 to this interview?
I wish!
Thank you Pablo for this amazing opportunity, realy like his work and playing, did you managed to try his guitar, just curious how high is the string action, sounds like a dream anyway.
Without practice even a master can goof it.
Great interview/master class. Any idea when Ralph will release "At first light"?
He told me he just went into the studio to record a new solo album a couple of months ago. I suppose this was one of the songs he recorded!
@@PabloHeldmusic I hope so. I found his performance of it on your Live in Cologne 2021concert.You guys are pretty good too.😉Thank you again for this interview and for your reply.
Thanks Pablo. I am curious what Ralph's thought would be about guitarists/composers like Leo Brouwer or Dusan Bogdanovic. Or doesn't he listen or relate to them?
I think we talked about Leo Brouwer once, but not during this conversation
@@PabloHeldmusic I would be very curious. In my own playing and composing both Ralph Towner as Leo Brouwer had much impact.
What a madman - emulating the piano on a guitar ! He'd have been better off doing something useful, like being a pilot for example. Oh well, it takes all sorts ............ Superb interview ( no surprise there ) .
49:04. it was Gato !!!
...Gato Barbieri is the Argentine saxophonist
48:54 Gato Barbieri )
yes ;-)
12:10 left hand exercise
Gato Barbieri