Paul Winter Consort
Paul Winter Consort | |
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General information | |
Genre (s) | Fusion music , ethnic jazz |
founding | 1967 |
Website | www.livingmusic.com |
Founding members | |
Paul Winter | |
Reeds |
Paul McCandless (occasionally also up-to-date) |
guitar |
Ralph Towner |
Percussion, sitar |
Collin Walcott |
Glen Moore | |
Current occupation | |
Soprano saxophone |
Paul Winter |
Keyboards |
Paul Sullivan |
cello |
Stephen Katz |
singing |
Theresa Thomason |
percussion |
Satoshi Takeshi |
meanwhile members | |
Electric bass |
Herb Bushler 1970 |
cello |
David Darling (1970–1979) |
percussion |
Glen Velez (1980–1991, occasionally also up to date) |
Keyboards, organ |
Paul Halley (1979-1999) |
cello |
Eugene Friesen (1979–1991, occasionally also up to date) |
guitar |
Oscar Castro-Neves |
singing |
Susan Osborn (1977-1984) |
flute |
Rhonda Larson (1986-1993) |
percussion |
Russ Hartenberger (1973–1975) |
percussion |
Bill Kahn (1976–1979) |
percussion |
Guilherme Franco (1980-1986) |
percussion |
Arto Tunçboyacıyan (2001-2003) |
singing |
Luciana Souza |
percussion |
Jamey Haddad |
The Paul Winter Consort is a jazz- oriented band and Grammy Award winner.
In 1967 the American saxophonist Paul Winter founded the band, initially as a pop music- oriented jazz group. From this time on, a solid group of musicians played in the Paul Winter Consort. The jazz group Oregon emerged from some musicians of this formation. However, the early albums marked an early ethno-jazz through the inclusion of Asian, African and South American music.
In the 1970s, the group experimented with the oboe and cello in search of new ways. To this day the formation is on the way and active. It relates to ethnic music, etc. a. Russian and Indian choirs, as well as making music, including animal calls and nature noises. She has recorded various albums in Grand Canyon National Park and other places in the great outdoors, most recently on Crestone Lake in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains . For 20 years the group has given concerts every year at the solstice , for example in the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine .
The group now plays a jazz-oriented mix of world and new age music and has repeatedly received a Grammy for its record productions .
Discography (selection)
- The Winter Consort (1968)
- Something in the Wind (1969)
- Road (1970, A&M; reissued 1989)
- Icarus (1972, 1984)
- Common Ground (1978)
- Earth: Voices of a Planet (1985)
- Wintersong (1986)
- Spanish Angel (1993, Grammy)
- Celtic Solstice (1999, Grammy)
- Silver Solstice (2005, Grammy)
- Crestone (2007, Grammy)
- Miho: Journey to the Mountain (2010, Grammy)