Ralph Towner Quotes

In general with collaborations, if I know in advance who I�ve elected to work with or use, I choose and compose pieces I feel would be flattering and work well with the other musicians to show them off in their best light. With a solo recording, you have to play everything yourself of course. In a certain way, it might be even more difficult to compose enough material for solo guitar because it�s quite intricate to play the whole shebang�all the parts.
Ralph Towner

The thing is for my orchestral music to leave the improvisational sections to us and integrating it so it doesn�t sound like pop�like in one of those pops concerts where it�s just whole notes and everyone else sort of plays scales on top of it. This is real orchestral music. I�d say the challenge was trying to get it all recorded in a short period of time. We had less than six recording days with musicians who hadn�t seen the music. So, we were working 10 hour days.
Ralph Towner