A list devoted to general discussion and sharing the interest about Ralph Towner, one of the most prominent guitar players of the last 50 years. Mr Towner is one of the finest jazz musicians from the US, and is said to play the guitar twenty years ahead of his time.
Me? I'd give my left arm for the three Abercrombie Quartet discs with Richie Beirach: Arcade (though I've a limited run expensive Japanese release of this one)
Five Years Later isn't available...yet. There's something like 40-50 titles that have yet to see release on CD and I'll be surprised if we don't see them on
Sigh. Very nice list and I'm glad for these releases, but why won't ECM release Five Years Later? And by the way, what does it mean they are releasing these
To be clear - this is NOT an ECM all-time Top 40. It is simply making a number of what they call "touchstone" discs available at a nice price ($10.98 at
... Admittedly, there are only perhaps a dozen other ECM artists and recordings I've heard over the years. And, like the top 10 list of a few weeks ago,