Ralph Towner - 12-string and classical guitar, piano Jan Garbarek - tenor and soprano saxophone, flute Eberhard Weber - bass, cello Jon Christensen - drums, percussion
THIS is when RU-vid is Invaluable! Fantastic performance from Spectacularly Gifted Musicians - in an Amazing age of music! This will never come this way again!
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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!
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!
