Ralph Towner - 12-string and classical guitar, piano Jan Garbarek - tenor and soprano saxophone, flute Eberhard Weber - bass, cello Jon Christensen - drums, percussion
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@michaelvaladez65703 ай бұрын
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.
@openreelsАй бұрын
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!
@raybrettman961819 күн бұрын
Sounds to be a masterpiece level performance of some excellent material of theirs's from that time. TY !
@brotzmannsax4 жыл бұрын
Ralph Towner's '70's output with Oregon and this quartet is second to none.
@twilight41927 жыл бұрын
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!
@carolmcbrideonline7 жыл бұрын
Truly!
@standalowen3 жыл бұрын
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.
@simonkash65713 жыл бұрын
i realize it is kinda off topic but do anyone know a good website to watch newly released movies online?
@sethtomas82573 жыл бұрын
@Simon Kash Meh I use Flixportal. just search on google after it:) -seth
@simonkash65713 жыл бұрын
@Seth Tomas thanks, signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D I really appreciate it !
@robtullius75404 жыл бұрын
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.
@grantkoeller89114 жыл бұрын
Oceanus Red Roof Distant Hills Love Theme from Spartacus Krusning The Journey Home Nimbus
@vinceleonberger53624 жыл бұрын
thank you
@twilight41927 жыл бұрын
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!
@cliberg6 жыл бұрын
"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!
@victorsethy6 жыл бұрын
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. :)
@Lesiga15 жыл бұрын
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!
@Lesiga15 жыл бұрын
@@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!
@uneedtherapy425 жыл бұрын
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.
@billcone88716 жыл бұрын
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.
@johnbeam60005 жыл бұрын
Solstice has been a fave of mine since I first stumbled across it in the early eighties, truly a masterpiece...
@MrWeezer559 ай бұрын
What a band!!
@paulfitterer55764 жыл бұрын
Great band! One of my faves. RIP Jon Christensen
@oldhawk41234 жыл бұрын
For me as a professional saxophonist it is incredible how Jan Garbarek plays. What a wealth of ideas, what an artistic design.
@grantkoeller89113 жыл бұрын
He was channeling a kind of Coltrane meets Ravi Shankar sound!!!
@wm.kipmiller40212 жыл бұрын
@@grantkoeller8911 A broad soaring/roaring sound that could be suble as well like Jim Pepper too!
@rogeranderson66884 жыл бұрын
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.
@lucineidemelocosta2550 Жыл бұрын
Gostaria de receber solstice full album studio great work
@zenpaganwarrior3 жыл бұрын
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.kipmiller40212 жыл бұрын
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.
@vitroladoluis4 жыл бұрын
ECM rules ! Thanks Lord !
@harveypipher84363 жыл бұрын
Oceanus just kills me. It's so beautiful and dramatic.
@uneedtherapy425 жыл бұрын
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!!
@bayonau4 жыл бұрын
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.
@freefall66964 жыл бұрын
@@bayonau We bow to your judgement. 😂
@twilight41927 жыл бұрын
Oh! I just love when Towner plays the piano at minute 44 - What a Gift to Humanity this man is!
@mikelord98605 жыл бұрын
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...!
@uneedtherapy424 жыл бұрын
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 !
@jerryvivanco43524 жыл бұрын
@@mikelord9860 Good question. Paul Winter Consort. Good call.
@wm.kipmiller40214 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@paulfitterer55765 жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh what a wonderful group!
@robscheps77223 жыл бұрын
A truly great group.
@robtullius75404 жыл бұрын
We always think.of Ralph as a fantastic guitar player.. What a blastimg piano player too...wow
@lablaine1981Ай бұрын
1983 album," blue sun" RT plays every instrument...most emotional album in my life,80 yrs old...crazy about ECM artists
@marcosbernardo41747 жыл бұрын
Tenho esse disco em vinil. Há muito não escuto essas músicas... Que maravilha escutá-las agora!!! Valeu obrigado...
@pacogarcia65194 жыл бұрын
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.
@odysseychl49253 жыл бұрын
Gracias por compartir!
@gabrielsanchezherrero93398 ай бұрын
GENIAL ‼️💫✨✌️✨💫
@paulfitterer55763 жыл бұрын
This is wonderful! One of my favourite bands!
@pgonzo986 жыл бұрын
all great masters...
@johnbeam60005 жыл бұрын
Nimbus at the end is awesome...
@danlhendl3 жыл бұрын
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
@christopherwarwick59563 жыл бұрын
Ralph Towners' guitar playing!
@donaldanderson66043 жыл бұрын
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.
@Kohntarkosz4 жыл бұрын
Wow! I didn't even know this existed!
@cristiancortes68406 жыл бұрын
uuuuuuufffffff without Words
@biawho4 жыл бұрын
incredible
@samissomar4 жыл бұрын
Great Jazzz...Masters !...
@riveravaldez7 жыл бұрын
Luke Evans as 'young Jan Garbarek'. BTW, Garbarek is awesome, such a beautiful, climatic, contemporary and folkloric sound and concept.
@smg49113 жыл бұрын
Nice interview with Ralph ( and many other fine guitarists) by Joel Harrison in 'Guitar Talk' Terra Nova Press 2021.
@haimlute6 жыл бұрын
Awesome, thanks a lot!!!!!
@grantkoeller89115 жыл бұрын
Mr. Spock on Tenor Saxophone
@vonhercynius95245 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Highly illogical
@cristiancortes68406 жыл бұрын
maravilloso Solsticio!
@luciosantoro8315 жыл бұрын
Grande musica
@grantkoeller89114 жыл бұрын
ECM needs to reissue albums that have not been released on CD
@reidwhitton62483 жыл бұрын
They re-issued 50 CDs last year. Plus the Art Ensemble box.
@zenpaganwarrior3 жыл бұрын
Especially with the recent vinyl revival, but also on CD, yes!
@emory04 жыл бұрын
Damn. Jan Garbarek looks like a kid there and he already sounds like Jan Garbarek.
@Kohntarkosz4 жыл бұрын
Well, he had been making records for a decade by this time, so yeah, he had his sound together by this time for sure.
@ВиталийМураневич3 жыл бұрын
Джаз - психоделика семидесятых , как же давно это было,а кажется как будто вчера.
@maximoxolar82745 жыл бұрын
¡Guau!
@kiptanaka9 ай бұрын
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...
@riveravaldez7 жыл бұрын
1:01:35 - Jan Garbarek as Charlie Mariano, !
@riveravaldez7 жыл бұрын
BTW, the lack of smiles and shouts from the public are disturbing...
@standalowen3 жыл бұрын
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.
@grantkoeller89114 жыл бұрын
Name of composition at the end
@trevorevlin445 Жыл бұрын
44:04
@trauteboie795611 ай бұрын
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 ? ? ?
@standalowen3 жыл бұрын
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.
@grantkoeller89114 жыл бұрын
Mr. Spock on saxophone
@chrislinhares73116 жыл бұрын
Too bad this wasn't recorded in stereo.
@jerryvivanco43524 жыл бұрын
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!!!!!!
@touchandgo983 жыл бұрын
a丸
@thebehaviouraltraininginst8122 жыл бұрын
Like Guiness, it's an acquired taste.
@alessandrodelaisla99885 жыл бұрын
Who did dislike? Trump, Hitler and Theresa, or her minister with a hairstyle...?
@jerryvivanco43524 жыл бұрын
The dislikes are from Hillary Clinton, A.O.C. and that PUTO who's ruining California, Gavin Newsome.
@bayonau4 жыл бұрын
@@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!
@alexanderjdivic47848 ай бұрын
@@bayonauRussophobia has no place in jazz you jerk
@BrunoCAGAS4 жыл бұрын
I REALLY dislike Garbarek music. :( I am sad but my feeling is that this instrument steal all sound and break with the silent vybe.
@brotzmannsax4 жыл бұрын
What the fuck is your problem exactly?
@BrunoCAGAS4 жыл бұрын
@@brotzmannsax cant travel with that thing
@droidhuman57423 жыл бұрын
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!
@odysseychl49253 жыл бұрын
Who cares lol
@droidhuman57423 жыл бұрын
@@odysseychl4925 not you I'm guessing
@nobuyukiiwahashi83874 жыл бұрын
Oceanus Red Roof Distant Hills Love Theme from Spartacus Krusning The Journey Home Nimbus