EARLY MILESTONES IN THE CAREER OF PAUL WINTER
include an invitation to the White House to play for Jackie Kennedy, and concerts and recordings with the Paul Winter Sextet, Dave Brubeck, Peter Paul and Mary, Carlos Lyra, Luiz Bonfa and Roberto Menescal

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JAZZ MEETS THE BOSSA NOVA

MUSIC OF THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE
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MILESTONES
In the Career of Paul Winter

BEGINNINGS | 1960's | 1970's | 1980's | 1990's | 2000

BEGINNINGS

1939: Paul Winter born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, into a musical family; grandfather Ferdinand Winter was bandmaster in Civil War, founded Winter Music Store in Altoona in 1880's, which continued under Paul's uncle and father until 1946.

1944: Paul Winter begins drum lessons with Freddie Tortell.

1945: auditions for Baker School Orchestra in first grade; drum career cut short by conductor who complains that, "He plays where he shouldn't"; piano lessons with Alma Leighty commence.

1946: study of clarinet begins with teacher John Monti.

1947: Paul and sister Diane begin performing as clarinet-piano duo, playing for local civic and church events.

1948: gets first alto sax.

1951: forms first group, 'The Little German Band', with clarinet, cornet, trombone and tuba; band starts performing throughout the Greater Altoona Area, playing old German 'oom-pah' music, telling jokes between the songs.

1952: 7th grade, featured as clarinet soloist in Altoona High School Band spring concert, playing 'Dizzy Fingers'.

1953: first dance band, 'The Silver Liners', (named after theme song 'Look for the Silver Lining') debuts in assembly at Roosevelt Junior High School.

1956: featured piano soloist, playing 'Rhapsody in Blue', in annual concert of Altoona High School Band.

1957: first composition, 'Soliloquy in Jazz', for solo sax and band, performed with Altoona High School Band in spring concert; summer tour of mid-western state fairs, playing in pit orchestra with members of Ringling Brothers Circus Band; fall semester at Northwestern University, small dance band formed.

1958: dance combo plays throughout Chicago area.

1959: jazz-oriented octet plays 6 nights each week in officers' club of Great Lakes Naval Base north of Chicago.

1960's

1960: summer tour playing tenor sax with Ralph Flanagan Orchestra; autumn one-niters in mid-west with Les Elgart Band.

1961: The Paul Winter Sextet wins first prize in Intercollegiate Jazz Festival; judges are Dizzy Gillespie and legendary producer John Hammond, who signs Sextet to Columbia Records.

1962: The Sextet makes six-month tour of 23-countries of Latin America for State Department; success of the tour brings invitation from Jackie Kennedy to play at White House; Sextet's concert in the East Room on November 19 is first ever by a jazz group in the White House; first Columbia album, JAZZ MEETS THE BOSSA NOVA, becomes a minor hit.

1963: Paul subs for saxophonist Paul Desmond with Dave Brubeck Quartet in Virginia Beach concert; Columbia releases JAZZ PREMIERE; WASHINGTON and NEW JAZZ ON CAMPUS.

1964: Sextet co-billed with Peter, Paul and Mary in campaign concerts for Lyndon Johnson.

1965/66: Paul returns to Brazil, living in Rio de Janeiro for 11 months; records SOUND OF IPANEMA with Carlos Lyra, and RIO with Luiz Bonfa, Roberto Menescal, and the Tamba Trio.

1967: Paul Winter Consort is founded, as forum for broad range of music; Consort makes first recording, accompanying 'The House Song' on Peter, Paul and Mary's ALBUM 1700.

1968: THE WINTER CONSORT, produced by Paul Stookey, released by A&M Records; Paul hears recordings of Humpback Whales; Consort tours Israel as part of predominantly classical Israel Festival.

1969: Consort plays 'rock' venue for first time, on bill with Spirit and Savoy Brown at Fillmore in San Francisco.

1970's

MILESTONES
| BEGINNINGS | 1960's | 1970's | 1980's | 1990's | 2000 |