I listed this as Paul Winter Consort, because this is the name that most folks know, but in fact, when this debut album was released in 1969, the band was called only Winter Consort. Many reviews list this as one of the best albums of the period. I will let you be the judge. Enjoy!
The Winter Consort ~ Road
A&M LP released in 1969
A&M CD released 25 October 1990
Paul Winter, sax
David Darling, cello
Ralph Towner, classical guitar
Paul McCandless, oboe, English horn
Collin Walcott, tabla, conga, surdos, traps, tambourine
Glen Moore, bass
Track Listing:
1) Icarus
2) Fantasy, Fugue and Ghost Beads
3) Abraco (A Big Hug)
4) Ave Maria Stella – Andromeda
5) General Pudson’s Entrance
6) Come to Your Senses
7) Requiem
Africanus Brasileiras Americanus
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Thank you!!!! !!!
My pleasure.
thanks for posting, one of my old favorites!! I have a totally worn thru LP. If you can find the rare and perhaps more refined studio album which preceded it “Something in the Wind” also on A&M I believe, really really perfect jazz classic, world fusion 20 years before anyone else.
Sorry, but I don’t have Something in the Wind, but I would love to hear it.
Maybe someone here can address this thing that’s been buggin’ me for 21 years now!
I, too, have always loved The Winter Consort’s “Road” album . . . especially the final medley (”Africanus Brasileiras Americanus”). C. 1990, I was thrilled to see it reissued on CD — and in a mini-LP sleeve, true to the original design, at that. Unfortunately, my delight turned to horror when I got to that medley: They had butchered it — arbitrarily deleting two sections, for God knows WHAT reason. (The CD certainly could have accommodated the entire album.)
I wrote to the reissue producer, who professed to be very grateful that I’d brought this to his attention; he said he’d look into it. Perhaps a year later, hearing nothing, I asked for an update. His tone was now hostile; he basically asked me to stop bothering him!
Anyone else notice this about the CD? I’ve never known any CD reissue, in any genre, to truncate any of the LP tracks. Anyone have any idea why some harebrained fool would to it to this great album?