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

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)

References

• , on LivingMusic.com.