Oregon Guitarist Ralph Towner Remembered in Live Echoes Session.
Ralph Towner was a guitarist’s guitarist, with a whole generation of finger pickers who have absorbed his merging of classical technique, jazz voicings and improvisation. Now he has plucked his final string, leaving us on January 18, 2026, at age 85. As a composer and guitarist he brought about a renaissance of acoustic chamber music that inadvertently triggered that side of New Age music, as well as inspiring a host of jazz and classical artists seeking something outside their appointed genres. We’ll remember Ralph with a 2006 live performance on Echoes.
Read John Diliberto’s Tribute to Ralph Towner.