Chiaroscuro is an album 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:...

 and Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu

Paolo Fresu

Paolo Fresu is a trumpet and flugelhorn jazz player, as well as an arranger of music, and music composer.-Career:Fresu was born in Berchidda, Sardinia. He picked up the trumpet at the age of 11, and played in the band Bernardo de Muro in his home town Berchidda...

 recorded in 2008 and released on the ECM label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Jeff Tamarkin awarded the album 4 stars stating "Chiaroscuro, naturally, boasts virtuosic musicianship, but it's never about that; it's about two artists coming together by chance and allowing their mutual respect to show them the way to something great".

Track listing

All compositions by Ralph Towner except as indicated

1. "Wistful Thinking" - 4:19
2. "Punta Giara" - 6:21
3. "Chiaroscuro" - 6:31
4. "Sacred Place" - 4:13
5. "Blue in Green
   Blue in Green
   "Blue in Green" is the third track on Miles Davis' 1959 album, Kind of Blue. One of two ballads on the LP , "Blue in Green"'s melody is very modal, incorporating the presence of the dorian, mixolydian, and lydian modes...
   
   " (Miles Davis
   Miles Davis
   Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
   
   , Bill Evans
   Bill Evans
   William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...
   
   ) - 5:45
6. "Doubled Up" - 4:56
7. "Zephyr" - 7:29
8. "The Sacred Place (Reprise)" - 1:59
9. "Two Miniatures" (Paulo Fresu, Ralph Towner) - 2:38
10. "Postlude" (Fresu, Towner) - 2:31
    • Recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway in October 2008.

Personnel

• 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:...
  
   — classical guitar
  Classical guitar
  The classical guitar is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones...
  
  , 12 string guitar, baritone guitar
  Baritone guitar
  The baritone guitar is a variation on the standard guitar, with a longer scale length that allows it to be tuned to a lower range. It first appeared in the classical music realm...
  
  
• Paolo Fresu
  Paolo Fresu
  Paolo Fresu is a trumpet and flugelhorn jazz player, as well as an arranger of music, and music composer.-Career:Fresu was born in Berchidda, Sardinia. He picked up the trumpet at the age of 11, and played in the band Bernardo de Muro in his home town Berchidda...
  
   — trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  , flugelhorn
  Flugelhorn
  The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...