{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Sound and Shadows | type = Album | artist = Ralph Towner / Solstice | cover = Sound and Shadows RT.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1977}} | recorded = {{Start date|1977|02}} | venue = | studio = Talent Studio<br>Oslo, Norway | genre = Jazz | length = {{Duration|m=44|s=35}} | label = ECM<br>ECM 1095 ST | producer = Manfred Eicher | chronology = Ralph Towner | misc = {{extra chronology | artist = Solstice | type = studio | prev_title = Solstice | prev_year = 1975 | title = Sounds and Shadows | year = 1977 }} | prev_title = Sargasso Sea | prev_year = 1976 | next_title = Batik | next_year = 1978 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> | rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' | rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=1410}}</ref> }}'''''Sound and Shadows''''' is an album by American jazz guitarist Ralph Towner, recorded in February 1977 and released on ECM later that year, Towner's second album with his ''Solstice'' quartet, featuring saxophonist Jan Garbarek and rhythm section Eberhard Weber and Jon Christensen.
==Reception== The AllMusic review by Michael G. Nastos states, "The playing here by Towner and a group of other ECM artists is what made the label so noteworthy: it is full of elegance and aplomb and the musicians are as aware of space as they are of what fills it."<ref name="Allmusic">Nastos, M. G. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r149095|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review: ''Solstice/Sound and Shadows''] accessed 10 March 2010</ref>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | headline = Side I | all_writing = Ralph Towner | title1 = Distant Hills | length1 = 10:46 | title2 = Balance Beam | length2 = 10:44 | total_length = 21:30 }} {{track listing | headline = Side II | title1 = Along the Way | length1 = 5:14 | title2 = Arion | length2 = 8:44 | title3 = Song of the Shadows | length3 = 9:24 | total_length = 44:52 }}
==Personnel==
=== Solstice === *Ralph Towner – 12-string and classical guitar, piano, French horn *Jan Garbarek – tenor and soprano saxophone, flute *Eberhard Weber – bass, cello *Jon Christensen – drums, percussion
=== Technical personnel ===
* Manfred Eicher – producer * Jan Erik Kongshaug – recording engineer * Barbara Wojirsch – cover design * Roberto Masotti – photography
==References== {{reflist}} {{Ralph Towner}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Solstice Sound and Shadows}} Category:1977 albums Category:ECM Records albums Category:Ralph Towner albums Category:Albums produced by Manfred Eicher