Paul Winter

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Paul Winter (born August 31, 1939 in Altoona, Pennsylvania) is an American saxophonist (alto and soprano saxophone), and is a four-time Grammy Award winner.

Contents 1 Career 2 Discography (partial) 2.1 Solo 2.2 Collaborations 2.3 and The Earth Band 2.4 with Winter Consort 2.5 the early Winter Consort 2.6 with Paul Winter Sextet 3 External links

[edit] Career

In 1961, while Winter was in college at Northwestern University, the Paul Winter Sextet won the Intercollegiate Jazz Festival and was signed by Columbia Records.

The next year, the band toured Latin America as cultural ambassadors for the United States State Department, playing 160 concerts in 23 countries. The Sextet was also the first jazz band to perform at the White House.

Winter returned to Brazil in the mid-1960s and his interest in Brazilian music and the emerging bossa nova led to the 1965 release of the album Rio, with liner notes by Vinicius de Moraes.

After Winter's band changed its name to the Paul Winter Consort in the late 1960s, it contributed to the development of world music, new age music and healing music. The Consort's 1972 release, Icarus, was produced by George Martin. Most of the musicians who worked on this album went on to form the jazz group Oregon. The Consort has continued over the years with different musicians.

[edit] Discography (partial)

[edit] Solo

• Canyon Lullaby (1997)
• Prayer for the Wild Things (1994) - (Grammy award)
• Solstice Live! (1993)
• Earth: Voices of a Planet (1990)
• Earthbeat (1987)
• Winter Song (1986)
• Canyon (1985)
• Sun Singer (1983)
• Missa Gaia/Earth Mass (1982)
• Callings (1980)
• Common Ground (1978, A&M Records)

[edit] Collaborations

• Celtic Solstice, Paul Winter and Friends (1999, Living Music) - (Grammy award)
• Brazilian Days, with Oscar Castro-Neves (1998)
• Whales Alive, with Paul Halley (1987)
• Rio, with Luiz Bonfa, Roberto Menescal, and Luiz Eca (1965, Columbia)
• The Sound of Ipanema, with Carlos Lyra (1964)

[edit] and The Earth Band

• Journey with the Sun (2000, Living Music)

[edit] with Winter Consort

• Silver Solstice (2005) - (Grammy Award)
• Spanish Angel (1993) - (Grammy Award)
• Turtle Island, with Gary Synder (1991)
• The Man Who Planted Trees (1990)
• Wolf Eyes [compilation] (1989)
• Concert for the Earth (1985)

[edit] the early Winter Consort

• Icarus (1972, Epic; reissued by Living Music ca. 1984)
• Road (1970, A&M; reissued 1989)
• Something in the Wind (1969, A&M)
• The Winter Consort (1968, A&M)

[edit] with Paul Winter Sextet

• Jazz Meets the Folk Song (1963, Columbia)
• New Jazz on Campus (1963, Columbia)
• Jazz Premiere: Washington (1963, Columbia)
• Jazz Meets the Bossa Nova (1962, Columbia)
• The Paul Winter Sextet (1961, Columbia)

[edit] External links

• Breen, Terry. "A Winter's Tale", in Northwestern (Northwestern University alumni magazine), Spring 2000. Accessed October 8, 2006
• Knapp, Tom. "Paul Winter: Common Ground (A&M Records, 1978)", review in Rambles. Accessed January 29, 2006
• All Music Guide entry for Paul Winter
• Paul Winter Sextet, on LivingMusic.com.
• Paul Winter discography, on LivingMusic.com.
• Paul Winter biography, on LivingMusic.com.
• Grammy.com