Ralph Towner Quartet, Live - Molde 1978

[@twilight4192]

THIS is when KZbin is Invaluable! Fantastic performance from Spectacularly Gifted Musicians - in an Amazing age of music! This will never come this way again!

[@carolmcbrideonline]

Truly!

[@standalowen]

Just want what I was thinking. I have had many,all albums gone,though. I'm am so happy I can find this kind of stuff.

[@simonkash6571]

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[@sethtomas8257]

@Simon Kash Meh I use Flixportal. just search on google after it:) -seth

[@simonkash6571]

@Seth Tomas thanks, signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D I really appreciate it !

[@openreels]

Dang! This really shows the distinctive voices of Towner and Garbarek, both in tone and ideas. And who knew that Towner is also a fine jazz pianist? Someone did a great job on the audio and video recording all those years ago, thanks to those hard workers!

[@robtullius7540]

RIP Jon Christensen... my brother and I studied ECM and Jon.Christensen for hours on end in the 70s. Outstanding Jazz from Europe. All the players in this group were our favorites.

[@michaelvaladez6570]

Upon seeing this group of outstanding musicians they were a force to be reckoned with..highly improvisational. Music sore written mainly by Ralph Towner it was a truly one of a kind of genre at the time.This video is greatly appreciated.

[@twilight4192]

Manfred Eicher of ECM Records deserves a NOBEL Prize! He has given this planet some of the finest musician to ever grace this Earth! - Towner, Jarrett, Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, Jack Dejohnette, Charles Lloyd, Pat Metheny, Eberhard Weber, Enrico Rava, Egberto Gismonti, Tomas Stanko... I mean SERIOUSLY! - you just go for days, and hear nothing but stupendous examples of Human Achievement! - and less than 1500 views here! If Extraterrestrials happen upon our World after we have utterly destroyed all vestiges of civilization, they'll excavate shit like Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Jay Z...etc, etc... and probably just say - "Let's MOVE-ON! Nothing to see here!" - unless they dig deeper! - WAY DEEP!

[@cliberg]

"they'll excavate shit like Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Jay Z...etc, etc... and probably just say - "Let's MOVE-ON! Nothing to see here!" - unless they dig deeper! - WAY DEEP!..." Man, you said it!

[@victorsethy]

Well, ECM was a great project, saving true musicians from big labels, wich didn't treated them properly... till ECM also became a big label. :)

[@Lesiga1]

Absolutely!!! You nailed it. The soundtrack to my life, by the most important producer ever to work in music. Incredible. How lucky we really are!

[@Lesiga1]

@@victorsethy ECM is no bigger than it ever was. It still does things the way it always did. Its just with the passing of time more records get made and more people listen. Great!

[@uneedtherapy42]

sitting here listening to this group tonight (I come here once and a while) and reading your comment. You know life is always strange and funny who we make our "stars" Ralph Towner is virtually unknown in the music world but he is genius! The word "genius" is casually thrown around these days (as in anyone who does anything is seen as a genius) but look at this music.... the instrumentation, the time signatures, the complex harmonies.... the average person would never see why this is indeed "genius" but it truly is... I know most wouldn't care that I feel almost sorry for them that they think pop music and people like Taylor Swift are great artists and they would never take the time to explore this kind of stuff. I understand that this stuff takes time to get into but its so worth the effort. Again, this is genius at a level of say Bach, Stravinsky etc. This to me is jazz chamber music and its phenomenal.

[@billcone8871]

So glad to see this. The Solstice album has been one of my favorites for quite a few decades. It never gets old. A treat to finally hear how they did it live. Utterly natural and ethereal. Great music and musicians.

[@johnbeam6000]

Solstice has been a fave of mine since I first stumbled across it in the early eighties, truly a masterpiece...

[@paulfitterer5576]

Great band! One of my faves. RIP Jon Christensen

[@oldhawk4123]

For me as a professional saxophonist it is incredible how Jan Garbarek plays. What a wealth of ideas, what an artistic design.

[@grantkoeller8911]

He was channeling a kind of Coltrane meets Ravi Shankar sound!!!

[@wm.kipmiller4021]

@@grantkoeller8911 A broad soaring/roaring sound that could be suble as well like Jim Pepper too!

[@MrWeezer55]

What a band!!

[@uneedtherapy42]

sitting here in awe.... I could be dead wrong (and I often am) but I swear to god Ralph Towner is a composer on the level of the greatest composers we have ever heard (I'm talking guys like Mozart and such). Now I am not stupid and I know this is a completely different genre/sound world than a classical composer of the 18th or 19th centuries but his compositions are just so strong and well crafted. This is incredible music!!

[@bayonau]

I'm in total agreement, you're not wrong at all. Along with Towner, I consider Egberto Gismonti to be in the same category of a total genius composer and player, both are among the very best of the 20th century.

[@freefall6696]

@@bayonau We bow to your judgement. 😂

[@raybrettman9618]

Sounds to be a masterpiece level performance of some excellent material of theirs's from that time. TY !

[@rogeranderson6688]

What a treasure. I also find it hard to understand why this incredible music is so little known. The opening track Oceanus has to be the best piece of free improvisation tied together with waves of energy that I have ever heard.

[@zenpaganwarrior]

Incredible talent and sounds that are just unheard of today, except in retrospective. What a different world we live in now. Well, we have the records...All hail the ECM-label masters!

[@wm.kipmiller4021]

The incredible level of talent is amazing at all positions. I call this an "all-star" jazz band. lol The polyrhythmic playing is out of this world too! Manfred Eicher knows so many ways to get much more including the best out of his band recordings as he did w/Solstice. He definitely had the talent to do it with here too.

[@twilight4192]

Oh! I just love when Towner plays the piano at minute 44 - What a Gift to Humanity this man is!

[@mikelord9860]

True that!!! I read where he approached his guitar playing from a pianist's perspective. Gee, I wonder if there exists any Paul Winter Consort vids with Ralph at the piano - I'm gonna look that up right now...!

[@uneedtherapy42]

what's is honestly even more incredible about that is that as a "classical guitarist" he uses his nails to activate the strings. It just amazes me that he doesn't break a nail while jamming on the piano or even on the 12 string guitar how that does not just chew his nails up! those things defy physics or something !

[@jerryvivanco4352]

@@mikelord9860 Good question. Paul Winter Consort. Good call.

[@wm.kipmiller4021]

@@uneedtherapy42 If you watch Towner's piano playing here his right hand and particularly his fingers attack the the keys very flatly without the fingernails hitting the keys. I assume he adapted to this style after picking up classical guitar and serious training on it while in his latter days of college and beyond. He spent his first professional years in NYC as a piano sideman with a huge Bill Evans influence. He also protects his finger nails to some extent with a special technique on the 12 string guitar which gives him a distinct 12 string sound. He says he strikes both strings individually instead on the dual strings at the same time. RT calls it a sound similar to a harpsicord. As far as I'm concerned he can call it anything he wants. He is a pioneer in all aspects of his music. His classical guitar playing style and compositions are highly respected by classical guitarists around the world.

[@vitroladoluis]

ECM rules ! Thanks Lord !

[@pacogarcia6519]

Me emociona ver este cuarteto...recuerdos de mi adolescencia cuando descubrí el sello ECM y todo lo que Manfred Eicher fichó...auténticas joyas del nuevo jazz y de la música contemporánea...de ahí el nombre del sello (Editions Contemporary Music)...quién me iba a decir que cuarenta años después de escuchar este disco en mi habitación, con 18 años, vería un video de estos geniales músicos....no me lo podía imaginar....verlos es muy fuerte....gracias por editar este video.

[@odysseychl4925]

Gracias por compartir!

[@paulfitterer5576]

Oh my gosh what a wonderful group!

[@lucineidemelocosta2550]

Gostaria de receber solstice full album studio great work

[@marcosbernardo4174]

Tenho esse disco em vinil. Há muito não escuto essas músicas... Que maravilha escutá-las agora!!! Valeu obrigado...

[@robtullius7540]

We always think.of Ralph as a fantastic guitar player.. What a blastimg piano player too...wow

[@lablaine1981]

1983 album," blue sun" RT plays every instrument...most emotional album in my life,80 yrs old...crazy about ECM artists

[@robscheps7722]

A truly great group.

[@brötzmannsax]

Ralph Towner's '70's output with Oregon and this quartet is second to none.

[@nobuyukiiwahashi8387]

Oceanus Red Roof Distant Hills Love Theme from Spartacus Krusning The Journey Home Nimbus

[@harveypipher8436]

Oceanus just kills me. It's so beautiful and dramatic.

[@paulfitterer5576]

This is wonderful! One of my favourite bands!

[@pgonzo98]

all great masters...

[@donaldanderson6604]

Awesome performance. Apparently it was Manfred Eicher who suggested that Towner focus on guitar with this band , perhaps to avoid comparisons with Keith Jarrett's European quartet so pieces which originally were going to feature piano had 12 string guitar instead. However, I am not complaining about the piano here.

[@danlhendl]

I remember this. I came across an ECM sampler album in the early 80s when I was in my early 20s not really knowing what ECM was and all the music impressed me so much

[@christopherwarwick5956]

Ralph Towners' guitar playing!

[@Kohntarkosz]

Wow! I didn't even know this existed!

[@smg4911]

Nice interview with Ralph ( and many other fine guitarists) by Joel Harrison in 'Guitar Talk' Terra Nova Press 2021.

[@biawho]

incredible

[@samissomar]

Great Jazzz...Masters !...

[@johnbeam6000]

Nimbus at the end is awesome...

[@grantkoeller8911]

Mr. Spock on Tenor Saxophone

[@vonhercynius9524]

Someone said the same a while back: Garbarek is on loan from the Vulcan Music Academy. Look at the back of the Luminessence album for the full Vulcan haircut. en.todocoleccion.net/vinyl-records/keith-jarrett-jan-garbarek-luminessence~x95922975

[@markofsaltburn]

Highly illogical

[@haimlute]

Awesome, thanks a lot!!!!!

[@gabrielsanchezherrero9339]

GENIAL ‼️💫✨✌️✨💫

[@riveravaldez]

Luke Evans as 'young Jan Garbarek'. BTW, Garbarek is awesome, such a beautiful, climatic, contemporary and folkloric sound and concept.

[@cristiancortes6840]

uuuuuuufffffff without Words

[@grantkoeller8911]

ECM needs to reissue albums that have not been released on CD

[@reidwhitton6248]

They re-issued 50 CDs last year. Plus the Art Ensemble box.

[@zenpaganwarrior]

Especially with the recent vinyl revival, but also on CD, yes!

[@riveravaldez]

1:01:35 - Jan Garbarek as Charlie Mariano, !

[@riveravaldez]

BTW, the lack of smiles and shouts from the public are disturbing...

[@cristiancortes6840]

maravilloso Solsticio!

[@emory0]

Damn. Jan Garbarek looks like a kid there and he already sounds like Jan Garbarek.

[@Kohntarkosz]

Well, he had been making records for a decade by this time, so yeah, he had his sound together by this time for sure.

[@luciosantoro831]

Grande musica

[@ВиталийМураневич]

Джаз - психоделика семидесятых , как же давно это было,а кажется как будто вчера.

[@kiptanaka]

Is Eberhard Weber employing a tapping technique that would essentially be the equivalent of Eddie Van Halen's "Mean Streets" intro? Asking for a friend...

[@maximoxolar8274]

¡Guau!

[@boujeemelon7305]

Jon Christensen.

[@trevorevlin445]

44:04

[@standalowen]

uneedtherapy42 uneedtherapy42 bayonau Not sure how to comment on you's both's comments. Ralph Tower,Zappa. And I'm the only other person I know that loves and has heard of Egberto.

[@grantkoeller8911]

Name of composition at the end

[@grantkoeller8911]

Mr. Spock on saxophone

[@standalowen]

Plus,not noted or mentioned much. Is Ralph was a classically trained guitarist and pianist. He has long picking fingernails. And plays incredible piano using the flat pads on his fingers? What great pianist's do that? Some.

[@jerryvivanco4352]

Great!!! Fucking great!!! Nice shot of JUST Towners face and the neck of his guitar. Focus should be on BOTH hands!!! Are cameramen in EVERY decade, no matter WHAT country they're filming in, THIS clueless!!!!!!

[@trauteboie7956]

Kann alle Kommentare nur unterstuetzen ! Ich bin sogar zum Plattenverlag gefahren in Muenchen um alle Neuigkeiten zu hoeren und kaufen. Und was ist denn jetzt mit diesem Verlag los ? ? ?

[@chrislinhares7311]

Too bad this wasn't recorded in stereo.

[@touchandgo98]

a丸

[@thebehaviouraltraininginst812]

Like Guiness, it's an acquired taste.

[@alessandrodelaisla9988]

Who did dislike? Trump, Hitler and Theresa, or her minister with a hairstyle...?

[@jerryvivanco4352]

The dislikes are from Hillary Clinton, A.O.C. and that PUTO who's ruining California, Gavin Newsome.

[@bayonau]

@@jerryvivanco4352 I'd like to know how much great ECM jazz your degenerate orange tyrant and his cult followers like you ever listen to, deaf troll! Tu pobre y pequeno cerebro es lo que esta' podrido! Mudate a Rusia!

[@alexanderjdivic4784]

@@bayonauRussophobia has no place in jazz you jerk

[@BrunoCAGAS]

I REALLY dislike Garbarek music. :( I am sad but my feeling is that this instrument steal all sound and break with the silent vybe.

[@brötzmannsax]

What the fuck is your problem exactly?

[@BrunoCAGAS]

@@brötzmannsax cant travel with that thing

[@droidhuman5742]

I can dig it... Garbarek is the most conservative player in this band imo. In a music where every player is vulnerable, and must rely on connecting their ears and brains together to form a cohesive unit, more interesting sonic zones can only exist if everyone is gonna go there. This music is striaghter than the shit I'm into, but I'm digging the interplays and textures of the bass, guitar and drums more than Jan's contributions (•‿•). Grateful for the upload!

[@odysseychl4925]

Who cares lol

[@droidhuman5742]

@@odysseychl4925 not you I'm guessing

[@grantkoeller8911]

Oceanus Red Roof Distant Hills Love Theme from Spartacus Krusning The Journey Home Nimbus

[@vinceleonberger5362]

thank you