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Solstice (Ralph Towner album)

Solstice
Solstice ecm album.jpg
Studio album by Ralph Towner
Released 1975
Recorded December 1974
Studio Arne Bendiksen Studio, Oslo
Genre Jazz
Length 40:58
Label ECM
ECM 1060
Producer Manfred Eicher
Ralph Towner chronology
Matchbook
(1975)Matchbook1975
Solstice
(1975)
Sargasso Sea
(1976)Sargasso Sea1976
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide 3/5 stars

Solstice is an album by the American guitarist Ralph Towner that was released on the ECM label in 1975. It features Towner with Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber and Jon Christensen.

The 1977 album, Solstice/Sound and Shadows, was released by Towner on ECM with the same quartet.

Allmusic awarded the album with 4.5 stars and its review by Michael G. Nastos states: "Of the many excellent recordings he has offered, Solstice is Towner's crowning achievement as a leader fronting this definitive grouping of ECM stablemates who absolutely define the label's sound for the time frame, and for all time".

All compositions by Ralph Towner except where noted.

The American hip hop group Atmosphere used a sample of Jon Christensen's drum introduction to "Piscean Dance" on a track called "Shoes", which features on their 2003 album Seven's Travels.


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