{"id":674726,"date":"2026-01-19T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/674726\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:24:09","slug":"ralph-towner-est-decede-a-lage-de-85-ans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/674726\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Towner est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e2ge de 85 ans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\"><strong>Le guitariste Ralph Towner, membre fondateur et historique du groupe Oregon, a quitt\u00e9 ce monde dans la journ\u00e9e d&rsquo;hier \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e2ge de 85 ans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>L&rsquo;ann\u00e9e 2026 vient \u00e0 peine de commencer, qu&rsquo;elle emporte d\u00e9j\u00e0 de grands artistes dans l&rsquo;autre monde&#8230; C&rsquo;est avec tristesse qu&rsquo;on a appris aujourd&rsquo;hui <strong>le d\u00e9c\u00e8s du guitariste am\u00e9ricain Ralph Towner, le 18 janvier 2026, \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e2ge de 85 ans<\/strong>. Aucune cause du d\u00e9c\u00e8s n&rsquo;a \u00e9t\u00e9 communiqu\u00e9e pour le moment, ce qui laisse penser qu&rsquo;il est probablement mort de vieillesse. C&rsquo;est donc encore <strong>un grand monsieur du jazz qui nous laisse, lui dont la carri\u00e8re avait d\u00e9but\u00e9 \u00e0 la fin des ann\u00e9es 60.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ralph Towner a <strong>\u00e9tudi\u00e9 la musique \u00e0 l&rsquo;universit\u00e9 d&rsquo;Oregon, puis \u00e0 l&rsquo;Acad\u00e9mie de Vienne<\/strong>, et a rapidement <strong>rejoint l&rsquo;\u00e9quipage du Paul Winter Consort<\/strong>, avant de finalement quitter le navire afin de <strong>fonder \u00ab\u00a0son\u00a0\u00bb propre groupe, \u00ab\u00a0Oregon\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>, comme l&rsquo;Etat o\u00f9 il avait appris \u00e0 jouer de la musique. Par la suite, il fera \u00e9galement <strong>partie de l&rsquo;aventure Weather Report pour leur album \u00ab\u00a0I Sing The Body Electric\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Un parcours extr\u00eamement riche, avec <strong>beaucoup d&rsquo;aventures en groupe, mais aussi en solo<\/strong>, lui qui a plusieurs dizaines d&rsquo;albums au compteur. Ralph Towner \u00e9tait un <strong>v\u00e9ritable prodige de la guitare, la guitare classique, \u00e0 6 cordes de nylon<\/strong>. Pas besoin de plus pour enchanter nos oreilles, m\u00eame s&rsquo;il s&rsquo;autorisera quelques incursions du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la guitare \u00e0 douze cordes m\u00e9talliques. Il aura \u00e9t\u00e9 extr\u00eamement <strong>proche du label ECM<\/strong>, sur lequel l publiera la plupart de ses albums solo, notamment <strong>l&rsquo;excellent \u00ab\u00a0Solo Concert\u00a0\u00bb en 1980<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On adresse nos condol\u00e9ances \u00e0 tous ses proches, mais aussi \u00e0 tous les nombreux musiciens qui l&rsquo;ont c\u00f4toy\u00e9 pendant sa longue et fructueuse carri\u00e8re.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Le guitariste Ralph Towner, membre fondateur et historique du groupe Oregon, a quitt\u00e9 ce monde dans la journ\u00e9e&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1111,19272,19271,58,11500,59,1011,27,3620,19274,1922,6910,19269,330,19278,1361,873,12,1825,19270,3610,11714,3655],"class_list":{"0":"post-674726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-divertissement","8":"tag-actu","9":"tag-black-music","10":"tag-blues","11":"tag-divertissement","12":"tag-electro","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-fr","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-funk","17":"tag-gospel","18":"tag-info","19":"tag-jazz","20":"tag-jazz-radio","21":"tag-jeux","22":"tag-latin","23":"tag-music","24":"tag-musique","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-radio","27":"tag-radio-jazz","28":"tag-soul","29":"tag-swing","30":"tag-webradio"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@fr\/115922696063814087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}