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Ralph Towner
One of modern jazz's most gifted and versatile musicians, Ralph Towner is noted
as a brilliant 12-string acoustic guitarist, with a huge catalogue of
recordings, both solo and with the band Oregon, while pushing the boundaries of
jazz in his fusions with classical and world music. Born in Chehalis,
Washington, on March 1, 1940, his mother was a piano teacher and his father a
trumpeter, so Ralph Towner was raised in a strong musical family, improvising on
the piano by the time he was three and taking trumpet lessons at the age of
five. However, he didn't take up his main instrumen...
