Ten Years of Living Music from Paul Winter and Friends

A stunningly beautiful collection of songs without words, for piano.  Paul Halley shares with us the gifts of his composing and improvising skills, born of his broad experience in jazz, classical music, Gregorian chant, Jamaican dance, and popular song.

Pianist Denny Zeitlin is a widely recorded and acclaimed composer, performer and improviser who is also a practicing psychiatrist. He brings his heart and his virtuosity together in HOMECOMING for Living Music.

Paul's celebration of the sun and the ways we experience it.  A lyrical and elegant trio album recorded in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, featuring Paul's soprano sax with the keyboards of Paul Halley and the hand percussion of Glen Velez.

Joined by the Paul Winter Consort, the legendary Irish soprano Nóirín Ní Riain transofrms the centuries-old Celtic sean-nos singing style into a contemporary expression of beauty and completeness.

Eugene Friesen and Paul Halley blaze a new path for their instruments in this landmark album of spontaneous compositions recorded in the warm and radiant acoustics of New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine.  Says producer Paul Winter: "Thanks to Eugene Friesen, one of the most sexy and soulful instruments in the world has been liberated."

Eighteen guest artists and some remarkable voices from the wild join the Consort in a celebration for the twentieth anniversary of Earth Day.  New compositions in tribute to the seven continents and the oceans interweave the sounds of African elephant, Amazonian "musical wren," Australian lyre-bird, orca, and endangered spotted-owl in a far-reaching musical journey.

This milestone collaboration, recorded in Moscow and New York in 1987, was the first album of original music created by Americans and Russians together. The Paul Winter Consort's western harmonies and Afro-Brazilian rhythms floating over the ancient circle songs and village chants revitalized by the dynamic Dmitri Pokrovsky Singers make this into an energetic, reverberating layering of sound.

Guitarist, composer, pianist, singer, arranger and musical bon vivant, Oscar Castro-Neves weaves the rhythmic joy his Brazillian guitar and vocal music with the sound of the Paul Winter Consort and other friends in this collection of vibrant and haunting compositions.