Paul Winter Consort

Paul Winter Consort 2005 (New York City)

Paul Winter Consort
General information
Genre (s)	Fusion music , ethnic jazz
founding	1967
Website	www.livingmusic.com
Founding members
Soprano saxophone	Paul Winter
Reeds	Paul McCandless (occasionally also up-to-date)
guitar	Ralph Towner
Percussion, sitar	Collin Walcott
double bass	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)