🎵 AotW AOTW: The Winter Consort - ROAD (SP-4279)

[Captain Bacardi]

The Winter Consort
ROAD
A&M SP-4279

Released 1970

Format: Vinyl/CD

Produced by Phil Ramone

Songs:

• 1. Icarus (Ralph Towner) - 4:30
  2. Fantasy, Fugue & Ghost Beads (Mudarra/Bach/Towner) - 7:06
  3. Um Abraco (A Big Hug) (Ralph Towner) - 4:20
  4. Ave Maria Stella/Andromeda (Dufay/Towner) - 8:14
  5. General Pudson's Entrance (Ralph Towner) - 5:50
  6. Come To Your Senses (Darling/McCandless/Moore/Towner/Walcott/Winter) - 6:41
  7. Requiem (David Darling) - 7:30
  8. Africanus Brasileiras (Kalagala Ebwembe) (Traditional, arranged by Paul Winter and Oscar Castro-Neves) - 8:10

Musicians:
Paul Winter - Sax
David Darling - Cello
Ralph Towner - Classical and 12-String Guitar
Paul McCandless - Oboe, English Horn
Collin Walcott - Tabla, Conga, Surdos, Traps, Tambourine
Glen Moore - Bass
(Miscellaneous percussion played by all: Amadinda Xylophone, Kalimba, Afuche, Reco-Reco, Agogos, V-8 Juice Shaker, Rubo, Sleighbells)

Recorded in Concerts at Royce Hall, U.C.L.A.; Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY; Whiskey A Go-Go, Hollywood

Engineers: Phil Ramone, Dave Greene
Remote Recording: Wally Heider, Fedco
Consort's Sound Engineer: Bobby Greene

Art Director: Tom Wilkes
Cover Art: Abe Gurvin
Calligraphy: Barbara Vosse
Photography: Slick Lawson



Capt. Bacardi

 

[Captain Bacardi]

Clearly the best effor by Paul Winter on A&M. It's really the only real jazz he did on the label. "Icarus" is the obvious favorite here, although I really dig "Africanus Brasileiras" as a close second favorite.



Capt. Bacardi

 

[Dave]

An able set of "The LIVE Paul Winter" or "The Definitive Winter Consort"... And very well-recorded...

When I saw Winter in concert, a lot of it did echo moments from this album, of songs that I don't think Paul had previously done in the studio...



Dave

 

[LPJim]

ROAD was reissued on CD in 1988 in the A&M Jazz Series (digi-pack) as # 0826.
It's out of print, unfortunately, but I found one in the cut-out bins.

JB