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Paul Winter Sextet: Count Me In

by Duncan Heining
October 13, 2016

The Paul Winter Sextet might just be one of the best early sixties groups you never heard. Their story, and that of their leader and altoist Paul Winter's, is certainly one of the most remarkable in jazz. Had some director made a film of the Sextet's short life, jazz buffs would have scoffed at the conceit. But it happened, man. It happened. A few years ago, Winter released Count Me In on his own Living Music label. It's ...

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Paul Winter Sextet: Count Me In

Read "Count Me In" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 22, 2013

Il sassofonista Paul Winter deve la sua fama prevalentemente alla formazione del suo Consort, il gruppo che ha guidato a partire dalla seconda metà degli anni '60 in un percorso di avvicinamento dal jazz alla world music con spiccata impronta ecologista, e nel quale ha tenuto a battesimo nel 1970 la nascita degli Oregon (i quattro membri originari del gruppo si sono incontrati quell'anno nel Consort, partecipando all'incisione dell'album Road, e nel successivo Icarus del 1972 erano ancora presenti, con ...

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Paul Winter Sextet: Count Me In

Read "Count Me In" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
January 14, 2013

The Paul Winter Sextet was a short-lived group from the 1960s, leaving little in terms of an imprint or legacy in jazz but for one distinguishing fact: it was the very first jazz group to perform in concert at The White House. After a grueling six-month State Department-sponsored tour of 23 Latin American countries, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy invited the group to perform in the East Room of The White House in November, 1962. Count Me In celebrates the 50th ...

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Paul Winter Consort: Miho - Journey to the Mountain

Read "Miho - Journey to the Mountain" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
May 6, 2011

Paul Winter's music pulsates with the earth's polyrhythmic heartbeat. Various incarnations of his Consort have been so in tune with the ground beneath their feet that this ensemble, in all its forms, has come to be the harbinger of the wellspring of all life. From time to time, Winter's soul has roamed the realms where mysticism rubbed cricket-legs with the limbs of Gaia, as in Missa Gaia/Earth Mass (Living Music, 1982). At other times, he has aligned his heart with ...