Paul Winter Biography

RU ”, the style of music created by the saxophonist Paul Winter Paul Winter is called“ world ”or, even more definitely -“ ecological ”jazz, and the floor itself calls it“ live music ”. Paul Winter was born on August 31 in the town of Altun, Pennsylvania, from the age of five, he played on drums, piano and clarnet, and in the fourth grade fell in love with the saxophone forever.

Starting with a children's brass band, he moved to Dixyland, and by the summer age he professionally toured with the ensemble playing Bibop. In, being a student of the North-Western University in a suburb of Chicago, Paul Winter gathered a sextet, who in the same year won the general American student jazz contest and immediately, thanks to the famous producer John Hammond, received a contract with the COLUMBIA Major Libel.

In the sound of the ensemble, Latin American elements immediately appeared, first of all, the stylistic signs of the Brazilian samba and boss-nova. Upon returning from the tour of the sextet, Winter Paul in G in M, he returned to the United States and created an ensemble, with various compositions of which he continued to work the next four decades - Paul Winter Consort. I took the word “consort” from the musical practice of Shakespearean times, ”the musician later said.

However, then the ways of Winter and the participants of the first Consort composition dispersed: the cellist David Darling later became the star of the ECM label, and the four other musicians guitarist Ralph Tauner, Goboist Paul McCandless, the bassist Glenn Moore and percussionist Colin Walcott, eching from Winter, They formed the legendary Fuzhn group Oregon. And it was then that another event occurred, which decisively determined the future direction of the work of Paul Winter: he heard the notes of the songs of the whales.

Of course, whaling - first of all, a humpbacked whale - do not “sing” in the sense in which people sing. Thirty-ton, thirteen-four-fifteen-meter hunchbacked whales Megaptera Novaeangliae make strange sequences of sounds, where each individual sound is a musical note. Megaptera novaeangliae humpbacked whale Megaptera novaeangliae humpbacked whale song of the male hunchback consists of a certain series of frequency-modified sounds and “phrases” in the range of 40-Hz, which lasts from 6 to 35 minutes; It can be repeated for several hours and even days.

Recent studies of the songs of whales by specialists of the Medical Institute of Howard Hughes showed that the songs have a hierarchical syntax, characteristic and human speech, that is, consist of separate words or syllables uniting in phrases and sentences. At the same time, short songs are syntactically more complicated. The study of the University of Cuinsland, Australia heard a recording of a melancholic, causing a person in many difficultly determined emotional associations of the “singing” of a hunchbacked whale literally turned Winter.

At the same time, not only first -class American musicians, drummer Steve Gedd, Goboist Paul McCandless, played on this album. Among the best releases of that time, “Callins”, where the converts specially recorded over three years of expeditions on Newfoundland, Gebride Islands, BagaMs and Baghadami and Bagaham In California, “Songs” of Kitov, Belug, Sea Outre Calans, etc. Big Canyon in Colorado.

Consort for recording about half of the material of this album really descended into the Grand Canyon to play with unique sound reflection-the famous Echo of the Canyon. Other plays were recorded in the largest Christian church of New York-the episcopal cathedral of John the Theologian, also possessing a powerful echo since then Paul Winter Consort, at least once a year, performs in this cathedral.

In the city of Winter, he gave a concert in Moscow along with the team, which occupied the central place in the movement of the preservation and revival of the genuine Russian musical folklore - the ensemble of Dmitry Pokrovsky, which was then at the peak of his popularity.

From this meeting, the idea of ​​a joint album, which was soon implemented, was born. Here is how the legendary pianist Dave Brubek appreciated this work: the album is unusually attracted by the natural sounds of the vote of the Pokrovsky ensemble, forcing them to feel a thrill from their discovery in how the half fused their thousand -year singing tradition with the individual style of his group, there is a convincing confirmation of his faith in the unity of the world song.

Numerous joint concerts followed. The music of this disk lives according to new musical laws, uniting Western harmony and Afro-Brazilian rhythms with ancient Slavic chants and unusual energy of voices. The album is constantly reprinted and to this day is very successful. The first song of the album, “Kurski Funk”, as a symbol of musical exotic, still opens the popular American TV show “Survivor” cloned on Russian television as “The Last Hero”.

In Russia with the city of RU ”in the city of Dmitry Pokrovsky, he performed in his permanent composition of X under the leadership of the musical director of Maria Nefyodova.Unfortunately, the preserved video of the concert of G. on the day of the concert Paul Winter also gave a big interview “Jazz. Ru ”, which was only in the paper version of our publication. We plan to publish it in the channel in Zen in the future.

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