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Paul Winter (born August 31 , 1939 in Altoona, Pennsylvania ) is an American Saxophonist (alto and soprano saxophone).


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 the 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 .

After Winter's band changed its name to the Paul Winter Consort in the late 1960s , it contributed to the development of New Age Music and Healing Music .


DISCOGRAPHY (PARTIAL)


Solo


  • ''Prayer for the Wild Things'' (1994)

  • ''Soltice Live!'' (1993)

  • ''Whales Alive'' (1991)

  • ''Winter Song'' (1986)

  • ''Common Ground'' (1979, A&M Records)



Collaborations

  • ''Celtic Solstice'', Paul Winter and Friends (1999, Living Music)

  • --- (Grammy award)



with Winter Consort

  • ''Spanish Angel'' (2000)

  • ''Earth: Voices of a Planet'' (1991)

  • ''Wolf Eyes'' (1989)

  • ''Icarus'' (1989)



with Paul Winter Sextet

  • ''The Paul Winter Sextet'' (1961, Columbia)

  • ''Jazz Meets the Bossa Nova'' (1962, Columbia)

  • ''Jazz Premiere: Washington'' (1963, Columbia)

  • ''New Jazz on Campus'' (1963, Columbia)

  • ''Jazz Meets the Folk Song'' (1963, Columbia)



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