Greatest Hits
Paul Winter
Released 1998
Run Time: 2 hours, 9 minutes
Produced by: Paul Winter
©℗1998 Earth Music Productions, LLC
Paul Winter’s Special Edition Greatest Hits album is a playlist that travels through a range of music traditions, offering an aural feast for Living Music fans as well as a great introduction for new listeners to the label. Living Music founder Paul Winter, saxophonist, composer and explorer of the world’s musical traditions, has created an award-winning body of work that transcends categories. Musical milestones are gathered here in a collection of 30 tracks from his Grammy Award-winning albums and from Living Music artists Pete Seeger, Nóirín Ní Riain, Oscar Castro-Neves, Eugene Friesen, Paul Halley, the Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble, Karan Casey, Davy Spillane and includes a number of new recordings of Living Music classics.
“Saxophonist Paul Winter isn’t the kind of artist you associate with ‘greatest hits.’ He has, however, won a few Grammies, been associated with some memorable compositions, and almost single-handedly launched the world chamber music movement, spawning the careers of Oregon, David Darling, Glen Velez, and many others. Over the course of his nearly 40 years of recordings, soprano saxophonist Paul Winter has explored a world of sound, literally. His group, the Paul Winter Consort, was created as an umbrella for Renaissance airs, jazz improvisation, Indian rhythms, and classical repertoire in an elegant, always melodic sound. ‘Greatest Hits’ covers a career remarkable for its all-embracing scope. The sambas of guitarist Oscar Castro-Neves have been a favorite of the saxophonist, and he re-arranges the Winter Consort theme song, “Icarus,” a la Brazil. The frame drumming of Glen Velez percolates through a couple of tunes from Canyon, and original Riverdance piper Davy Spillane guests on a pair of pieces from the Celtic Solstice album. Winter plays duets with wolves, Grand Canyon echoes, humpback whales, and Paul Halley’s pipe organ. This is a great survey from one of the important musicians in modern instrumental music ”
– John Diliberto
Performers
Paul Winter | soprano saxophone, e-flat contrabass sarrusophone
Eugene Friesen | cello
Phil Ayling | oboe
Rhonda Larson | flute
Warren Luening | piccolo trumpet
Oscar Castro-Neves | guitar, piano
Dave Carpenter | bass
Alex Acuna | drums
Cassio Duarte | percussion
Nancy Rumbel | English horn
Jim Scott | classical guitar
Ted Moore | tanpura, percussion
Paul Halley | keys
Viki Sylva | harmonium
Davy Spillane | Uilleann pipes
Glen Velez | percussion
Nilson Matta | bass
Paulo Braga | drums
Eliot Wadopian | bass
John Clark | French horn
Susan Osborn | voice
Russ Landau | bass
Kimati Dinizulu | percussion
Guilherme Franco | percussion
Paul McCandless | oboe
David Darling | cello
Gary King | bas
Steve Gadd | drums
Michael Holmes | keyboards
John Clark, French horn
Ralph Towner | classical guitar
Herb Bushler | Fender bass
Collin Walcott | percussion
Karan Casey | vocal
John Guth | steel-string guitar
Robert Chappell | keys
Laudir de Oliveira | water drum
Noirin Ni Riain | voice and supeti
Steve Gorn | bansuri
Ira Landgarten | tanpura
Pete Seeger | voice and banjo
Howard Levy | harmonica
David Flink | bass
The Union Baptist Singers | chorus
The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble: Dmitri Pokrovsky, Maria Nefedova, Alexander Danilov, Elena Sidorenko, Sergei Zhirkov, Tamara Smyslova, Arthur Partosh, Anna Konukhova, Andrei Kotov, Nini Savistkaya, Dmitri Fokin, Vladimir Teplov, Irina Ponomaryova, Sergei Grigoriev
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