Friends by Oregon, released on Vanguard in 1977.

Oregon was an American jazz and world music group, formed in 1970 by Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, Glen Moore, and Collin Walcott...

The group's first release Music of Another Present Era was issued on Vanguard in 1972[1] (the four also recorded for ECM, though the recording, 1973's Trios Solos, was billed as "Ralph Towner with Glen Moore"). With those initial recordings and the follow-ups Distant Hills (1973) and Winter Light (1974) (all on Vanguard), Oregon established itself as one of the leading improvisational groups of its day, blending Indian and Western classical music[3] with jazz, folk, space music[4] and avant-garde elements. The group released numerous albums on Vanguard throughout the 1970s.. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woSIUtJSBgc&list=PL-eHA2JwsJ2NztvzfRLfH8oiCZHFf3FEQ&index=1

#Oregon #Vanguard #Music #RalphTowner #PaulMcCandless #GlenMoore #CollinWalcott #Jazz

Ended the week and welcomed the weekend with Dis an album by Norwegian jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek, recorded for ECM in December 1976..

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

Debates over the “ECM sound” continue, though thankfully with waning fervor, in attempts to define that which never needed definition in the first place. Meanwhile, critical pundits are missing out on some spectacular music that would easily silence their concern over arbitrary categories. On Dis, his eighth album for the label, Jan Garbarek slipped off his extroverted garments and into a deep look inward. One immediately notices the windharp...The windharp anchors the album into place, appearing at its center and outer edges..

https://ecmreviews.com/2010/12/17/dis/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkQuxNak_tA&list=OLAK5uy_nplpeyXeDiEss0-wudhiAyoCEZ3udGAiQ

#JanGarbarek #RalphTowner #Jazz #ECM #ECMReviews #Windharp #Music

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld

Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu:
🎵 Sacred Place

#RalphTowner #PaoloFresu

https://open.spotify.com/track/0od5R0qVfDsWJKa3SL2wa9

`Two lunar craters were named by the Apollo 15 astronauts after two of Towner's compositions, "Icarus" and "Ghost Beads".`

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Towner#Honors

#RalphTowner #guitar #music #history #space #Apollo15 #lunar