Paul Winter (born August 31, 1939 in Altoona, Pennsylvania) is an American … Read Full Bio ↴Paul Winter (born August 31, 1939 in Altoona, Pennsylvania) is an American saxophonist (alto and soprano saxophone).
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 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.
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 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.
Wolf Eyes
Paul Winter Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Paul Winter:
Common Ground Here we are Alive and free Far away in time from our…
Magdalena Opo salahku nganti kowe ninggalke aku Opo sebab alesan dadi …
Ocean Dream Ocean Child Come now home Holy wonder Wholly one Ancient so…
Oceano Dream Ocean Child Come now home Holy wonder Wholly one Ancient so…
The Silence Of A Candle There falls the words of fools about my ears To hasten…
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Jodi Adams
Thankyou SO much for uploading this album and song which I so love!
As a young newspaper journalist of 21 whose environmental activism started at age 10, I was asked in 1978 to become the fledgling Greenpeace Australia's first coordinator.
A surf photographer friend gave me "Common Ground" as a vinyl record (remember them?) and I all but wore it out: it kept me going through many long days and nights of work.
In 1979 I took a couple of months off work and at my own cost visited the then Greenpeace headquarters in Vancouver, plus offices down the US West Coast.
When some Friends of the Earth crew I was visiting in Santa Barbara casually mentioned they were driving down to LA to see Paul in concert, I leapt at the chance to tag along!
So we and the packed audience got to see Paul perform this song accompanied by a huge female timber wolf providing the accompliment.
She was a big sook (one of several wolves around America who were wolf educators) who lived where we stayed at the Tree People's huge canyonside nature reserve right in the heart of LA.
A bunch of human musos also accompanied Paul at the gig (including several from the Grateful Dead), and I remember we all (including Paul) cracked up when Ms wolf was so excited to see a guitarist she obviously knew come out onto the stage that she leapt on him and knocked him down with big kissy licks of greeting!
She was a BIG healthy girl: I met her when I opened a door and was happily greeted by a wolf who was almost as tall as me!
Thank you so much for bringing me so many happy memories: I am now a white haired 66 year old who is still an active campaigner for environmental and human carer rights!
Jim Scott
I wrote this. I was the guitarist in the Winter Consort starting in 1977. David Darling (cellist) had come up with some chords to harmonize the wolf call. Paul gave me that bit of music and said "See what you can do with this." I used some of David's original and built upon it and added the lines for cello and a sax part that compiled some of Paul's improvisatory ideas he'd recorded on a cassette.. It was my first assignment - and that opened up for me the collaborative manner in which Paul worked with, putting this thing with that thing and coming up with something that would be a musical backbone to improvise with. The recording here cuts off before the end. When we would do it live, it would get to a final wolf howl and Paul would get the audience to howl. A real culture shock for concert hall audiences.
William Galison
gorgeous
Pam Makie
I heard it at Cathedral of St.John the Divine in NYC, Manhattan. It was a live Paul Winter Concert. Thank you. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO VERY BEAUTIFUL. That was a long time ago, and I still vividly remember. Just posted to my FB page. It is good to post beautiful things.
Dale Rider
@Norm Sands - Oh, NORM, that moves my heart and soul to read your story, Thanks!
dustyblue
Many Blessings Jim Scott~ I am a lose for words only heart speak at the depth this song has connected me to a dear spirit friend of past and his brother Rene. All I can say is Love & Blessings <3
Susie Wilson
I went to one of those concerts and howled along! It was an ecstatic experience which I will never forget!
Phil Stouffer
I was lucky enough to be howling in the audience at a show in the late 1980s in New Jersey. These musicians provide a unique treasure. Thank you, Paul Winter Consort!
lama
One of the most enchanting, ineffably beautiful music creations I have ever heard. What a profound and noble state it creates...
elaine moran
How amazing this is. I heard this in DC in 1990, it drew me in. I played it always outside. My dog , one day gave answering call to it. magical. Thankful for the backstory now to complete the picture.
Robert Bernstein
Thank you Jim. This piece was an early wake up that music isn't just a human concept. That wolve's would howl in a "key" was the first time I ever considered that music may have predated humans.