Background
Winter, Paul Theodore was born on August 31, 1939 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Paul Theodore and Beaulah (Harnish) Winter.
composer bandleader saxophonist jazz musician
Winter, Paul Theodore was born on August 31, 1939 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Paul Theodore and Beaulah (Harnish) Winter.
Paul Winter attended Altoona Area High School and graduated in 1957.
The next year, the band toured 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. 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.
In 1975, Paul Winter sailed aboard the Greenpeace V anti-whaling expedition for three days of playing saxophone to wild gray whales off the coast of Vancouver Island (Tofino).
He was accompanied in this effort by Melville Gregory and Will Jackson, musicians attempting to "communicate" with the whales using various instruments and a Serge synthesizer. Photos of Winter and the whales appeared on wire services and in media around the world, helping the ultimate success of the mission against Soviet whalers.
After Winter"s band changed its name to the in the late 1960s, it contributed to the development of world music and space music The Consort"s 1972 release, Icarus, was produced by George Martin.
Most of the musicians who worked on this album went on to form the jazz group Oregon.
The Consort has continued over the years with different musicians. The Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Recipients List As of 2011, Paul Winter was working on two new albums: One album an a compilation of material from his original group, the, titled Early Winter. The other to be an album of new music, featuring the, the Great Rift Valley Orchestra, and the calls of the birds that migrate from Africa to Eurasia.
The new project was titled Flyways, and will be a musical journey through the cultures that the birds fly over.
Both projects we rebe released in 2011. Winter is married and has two children.
Founder Living Music Foundation, 1976.
Married Cherry Liley, 1991. One child: Keetu.