Anthem (Ralph Towner album)
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Anthem is a solo album
by American guitarist Ralph Towner
recorded in 2000 and released on the ECM label.
Solo album
A solo album, in popular music, is an album headlined by a current or former member of a band. A solo album may feature simply one person performing all instruments, but typically features the work of other collaborators; rather, it may be made with different collaborators than the artist is...
by American guitarist Ralph Towner
Ralph Towner
Ralph Towner is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion and trumpet.-Biography:...
recorded in 2000 and released on the ECM label.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Anthem is Towner's finest album in a decade and one of the finest in his distinguished career".Track listing
- All compositions by Ralph Towner except as indicated
- "Solitary Woman" - 6:57
- "Anthem" - 4:54
- "Haunted" - 3:08
- "The Lutemaker" - 4:21
- "Simone" - 6:03
- "Gloria's Step" (Scott LaFaroScott LaFaroRocco Scott LaFaro was an influential jazz bassist, perhaps best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio.-Biography:...
) - 2:51 - "Four Comets Part 1" - 1:06
- "Four Comets Part 2" - 1:12
- "Four Comets Part 3" - 1:02
- "Four Comets Part 4" - 0:52
- "Raffish" - 4:14
- "Very Late" - 4:02
- "The Prowler" - 5:01
- "Three Comments Part 1" - 1:32
- "Three Comments Part 2" - 0:31
- "Three Comments Part 3" - 0:54
- "Goodbye Pork Pie HatGoodbye Pork Pie Hat"Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" is a jazz standard composed by Charles Mingus originally recorded by his sextet in 1959 as listed below, and released on his album Mingus Ah Um. Mingus wrote it as an elegy for saxophonist Lester Young, who had died two months prior to the recording session...
" (Charles MingusCharles MingusCharles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
) - 1:54- Recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway in February 2000.