ArtistInfo

Ralph Bowen

ts, sax, *1961 CA, Canada
Musician of Jazz

Canadian-born saxophonist Ralph Bowen started piano lessons at and early age, with clarinet and saxophone lessons following soon thereafter. By the age of thirteen, he was leading his own quartet and performing in big bands in the Toronto area. As a teenager, Bowen was awarded a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to study music with Pat LaBarbera and Phil Nimmons at the Banff School of Fine Arts. While in Toronto, he studied with LaBarbera for a total of eight years and developed a long-time association with drummer Kieth Blackley and his father educator/drummer Jim Blackley. As well, he performed and recorded with Canadian fusion group Manteca. In 1983 and 1984, he was awarded two more grants to pursue his musical studies in the Jazz Department at Indiana University, where he hone

Instruments

• Tenor sax
• Saxophone
• Flute
• Soprano sax

Genres

• Jazz
• Latin

Plays With