Paul (Theodore) Winter - Career, Discography (partial)

Bandleader and composer, born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA. A child musician, he learned saxophone and toured with the Ringling Brothers Circus at age 17, and in 1961 his college sextet won a 23-country tour of Latin America. He formed the Paul Winter Consort (1967) and began mixing folk, classical, ethnic, and jazz forms, creating what he called ‘Earth music’, a prototype of New Age music. Dedicated to worldwide cultural and environmental issues, the Consort performs in many benefit concerts and has won many humanitarian awards.

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.

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.

Discography (partial)

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)

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)

and The Earth Band

Journey with the Sun (2000, Living Music)

with Winter Consort

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)

the early Winter Consort

Icarus (1972, Epic; reissued 1989) Something in the Wind (1969, A&M) The Winter Consort (1968, A&M)

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)