Oregon - Green and Golden - Belo Horizante 2007 (live video)

Oregon has been a unit long enough that Apollo astronauts carried their music around the moon, which lead to the moon craters "icarus" and "Ghost Beads" being named after two of their compositions. Ralph Towner and Paul McCandless are multi-instrumentalists. Towner plays twelve-string and acoustic guitar, piano, the Prophet synth and trumpet. McCandless plays oboe, soprano sax, and bass clarinet. These two, plus bassist Glen Moore compose the band's music.Their first percussionist Colin Walcott was once Ravi Shankar's road manager. He told me he got his sitar lessons from Ravi and his tabla lessons from Alla Rahka in the back seat of cars on the way to gigs. He was wonderful on these and played every kind of drum and precussion imaginable during performances besides. He performed once on a Miles Davis recording and was told to "just drone, motherf---er!"Oregon disbanded for several years after Walcott was killed in a car crash in East Germany.When they reformed, Indian tabla player and multi-percussionist Trilok Gurtu joined. I don't know their newest percussionist Mark Walker very well, but he sounds good in this concert in Brazil. Despite the excellence of their music, they're barely known. I hope y'all whisper about them to your fellow moggers. "Green and Golden" is a Towner composition.Their entire Belo Horizonte concert is up on YouTube spread across 14 video clips. Search for "Oregon Towner" to find those if you have eyes for more.