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Das Paul Winter Consort ist eine Jazz -orientierte Band sowie Grammy -Preisträger. 1967 gründete der US-amerikanische Saxophonist Paul Winter die Band zunächst als an der Popmusik orientierte Jazz-Gruppe. Ab dieser Zeit spielte im Paul Winter Consort ein fester Stamm von Musikern.
- 1967
- Paul McCandless (gelegentlich auch aktuell)
- Paul Winter
Paul Winter Consort. The Paul Winter Consort outside the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Manhattan, after Earth Mass 2005. Background information. Genres. New-age, chamber jazz, folk jazz, ethno jazz, world fusion. Years active. 1967–present. Labels. A&M, Epic, Living Music.
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Listen to the Paul Winter Consort, a group of musicians who integrate classical, jazz and world music with voices from the natural world. Explore their albums, awards, videos and more on their official website.
Learn about Paul Winter, a seven-time Grammy® winner who founded the Paul Winter Consort, a ensemble of jazz, world and classical musicians and wildlife voices. Explore his music, events, and conservation projects on his official website.
- Early Life
- Paul Winter Sextet
- Paul Winter Consort
- Artist-in-Residence
- Earth Music
- Winter and Wolves
- Adventures in Soundplay
- Awards
- External Links
Winter was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States. He studied piano and clarinet, then fell in love with saxophone in the fourth grade. He started the Little German Band with his schoolmates when he was twelve, then a Dixieland band, and a nine-piece dance band known as The Silver Liners. He became enthralled by big bands and bebop bands of t...
At Northwestern University, he majored in English and visited jazz clubs in Chicago. In 1961, his sextet won the Intercollegiate Jazz Festival and was signed by Columbia Records. He was accepted by the University of Virginia Law School, but postponed that plan when during the next year the sextet went on a goodwill tour of Latin America, as cultura...
In 1967 he started the Paul Winter Consort, influenced by Heitor Villa-Lobos and other Brazilian music, to give ensemble playing and soloing equal importance, analogous to a democracy where every voice would count. He borrowed the name from English Elizabethan theater of the 16th and 17th centuries, when bands combined woodwinds, strings, and percu...
Winter is a member of the Lindisfarne Association, founded by William Irwin Thompson, of scientists, artists, scholars, and contemplatives devoted to the study and realization of a planetary culture. Through this organization, Winter met the Very Reverend James Parks Morton, Dean of New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. In 1980, Dean Mo...
In 1968, when he attended a lecture on whale songs by Roger Payne at Rockefeller University in New York City, Payne and Scott McVay discovered that humpbacks produce sounds in intricate patterns that fit the definition of "songs." These change over time and represent a cultural tradition passed orally from one whale to the next. Winter was thrilled...
In late 1968, Winter saw wolves for the first time in the Redding, Connecticut, middle school, at a program given by John Harris. Harris was touring the country to raise awareness about wolves and trying to counter the prejudice that was responsible for the extermination of these creatures from the wild. Looking into the eyes of the wolf as it sat ...
In 1968, Winter began introducing improvisations into the Consort's concerts as a way for the group (cello, alto flute, English horn and sax) to play freely. The band would perform one "free piece" with all the lights turned out in every concert. This shared adventure into the unknown was often a high point with audiences. After the Consort was ask...
Winter has received a Global 500 Award from the United Nations, the Joseph Wood Krutch Medal from the United States Humane Society, the Peace Abbey's Courage of Conscience Award, the Spirit of the City Award presented at New York's Cathedral of St John the Divine, and an honorary Doctorate of Music from the University of Hartford. He also received ...
Breen, Terry. "A Winter's Tale", in Northwestern(Northwestern University alumni magazine), Spring 2000. Accessed October 8, 2006Knapp, Tom. "Paul Winter: Common Ground (A&M Records, 1978)", review in Rambles. Accessed January 29, 200630. Jan. 2021 · Best Of The Paul Winter Consort. Richard Brooks. 40 videos 19,856 views Last updated on Jan 30, 2021. Some of the best selections from Paul Winter's 50+ years of music-making with his...
Paul Winter Consort. @PaulWinterConsort ‧. 4.35K subscribers ‧ 658 videos. Celebrating the cultures and the creatures of the whole Earth. paulwinter.com. Home. Videos. Live. Playlists....
