Format Details:
Release Date: 17 May 2019
Label: ECM Touchstone
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0602567434832
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Format Details:
Release Date: 17 May 2019
Label: ECM Touchstone
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0602567434832
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
As the title implies, Diary, the first entirely solo recording from Ralph Towner, is an intimate album. Its quiet reflections get to the heart of some outstanding Towner compositions including "Icarus" and "The Silence of a Candle" which receive definitive interpretations here, conveying the impression of "an acoustic wonderworld" as Die Zeit wrote.
The magic includes subtle overdubbing, allowing Towner to accompany his guitar with piano. In these diary entries the convergence of influences from jazz (Bill Evans above all), classical music and Brazilian music is fully realized in a very natural synthesis. Recorded 1973.
Personnel: Ralph Towner (12-string and classical guitars, piano, gongs)
Tracklisting
Paul Motian
Keith Jarrett Trio
Terje Rypdal
John Abercrombie
Enrico Rava
Terje Rypdal
Miroslav Vitous & Jan Garbarek
Terje Rypdal
Ralph Towner
Ralph Towner
Ralph Towner, Wolfgang Muthspiel & Slava Grigoryan
Ralph Towner
Ralph Towner
Ralph Towner
Ralph Towner