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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.
His mother was a piano teacher and his father a trumpeter, so 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 instrument - guitar - until he was at the University of Oreg...
