Paul Winter was born August 31, 1939 in Altoona (Pennsylvania) and is an American saxophonist (alto u0026 soprano). The Intercollegiate Jazz Festival was won by the Paul Winter Sextet while Winter was at Northwestern University. Columbia Records signed the group. The band performed 160 concerts in 23 countries throughout Latin America the following year as cultural ambassadors for America’s State Department. The Sextet also performed at the White House as the first jazz group. The development of healing and new age music was made possible by the name change to Paul Winter Consort that Winter’s band underwent in the late 1960s. Text contributed by users is available under Creative Commons By–SA License. It may also be available under GNU FDL.
