Paul Winter Consort

The Paul Winter Consort is a jazz - oriented band and Grammy winner.

In 1967, the American saxophonist Paul Winter, the band initially as oriented on the pop jazz group. From this time played in the Paul Winter Consort, a fixed strain of musicians. The jazz group Oregon was comprised of several musicians that formation. However, the early albums highlighted by the inclusion of Asian, African and South American music early ethno-jazz.

In the 1970s, the group was experimentally with oboe and cello on the search for new ways. To date, the formation is underway and active. It relates ethnic music, among others Russian and Indian choirs, as well as in their music making, such as animal calls and sounds of nature. She has recorded several albums in the Grand Canyon National Park and other places in the wild, most recently on Crestone Lake in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. For 20 years, the group spends the solstice concerts, such as the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine.

The group now plays a jazz - oriented mix of world and new age music, and has been honored for her record productions repeated with a Grammy.

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 )
• Winter Song (1986 )
• Spanish Angel ( 1993) ( Grammy )
• Celtic Solstice ( 1999) ( Grammy )
• Silver Solstice ( 2005) ( Grammy )
• Crestone ( 2007) ( Grammy )

• Jazz Band
• American band
• Grammy winner