''Crestone'' is an album by
Paul Winter Consort
The Paul Winter Consort is an American musical group. Bassist Eliot Wadopian has been a member.
Discography
Films
*''Canyon Consort'' (1985)
References
External linksLiving Music- Paul Winter's record label
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, released in 2007 through the
record label
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Living Music.
The album is named after the community of
Crestone, Colorado
Description
The Town of Crestone is a Statutory Town in Saguache County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 141 at the 2020 United States Census. Crestone is a small village at the foot of the western slope of the Sangre de Cri ...
. The album was recorded in the
Sangre de Cristo Mountains
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, the
Great Sand Dunes
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is an American national park that conserves an area of large sand dunes up to tall on the eastern edge of the San Luis Valley, and an adjacent national preserve in the Sangre de Cristo Range, in south- ...
, and the
San Luis Valley
The San Luis Valley is a region in south-central Colorado with a small portion overlapping into New Mexico. The valley is approximately long and wide, extending from the Continental Divide on the northwest rim into New Mexico on the south. It co ...
of southern
Colorado
Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of t ...
, all of which are located near Crestone. In
2008
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, the album earned the group a
Grammy Award
The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most pres ...
for
Best New Age Album
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.
Track listing
# "Songs to the Mountains"
# "Koji Island"
# "Blue Horse Special"
# "Calling the Buffalo"
# "Zen Morning"
# "Witchi Tai To (Invocation)"
# "Whooper Dance"
# "Intertribal Pow-Wow Song"
# "Mountain Treefrogs"
# "Cloud"
# "The Smell of the Rain"
# "Meadowlark"
# "Sunset on the Great Sand Dunes"
# "Nightfall in the Wetlands"
# "Moonrise Over the Sangres"
# "All My Relations"
# "Bumblebee Honor Song"
# "Home on the Range"
# "Witchi Tai to"
# "Goodnight to the Mountains"
Personnel
*
Paul Winter
Paul Winter (born August 31, 1939) is an American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. He is a pioneer of world music and earth music, which interweaves the voices of the wild with instrumental voices from classical, jazz and world music. The ...
– soprano saxophone
*
Paul McCandless
Paul Brownlee McCandless Jr. (born March 24, 1947) is an American multi-instrumentalist and founding member of the American jazz group Oregon. He is one of the few jazz oboists. He also plays bass clarinet, English horn, flute and soprano saxop ...
– oboe,
bass clarinet
The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays notes an octave bel ...
*
Don Grusin
Don Grusin (born April 22, 1941) is an American jazz keyboardist, composer, and record producer. He is the younger brother of Dave Grusin.
Career
Don Grusin grew up in Littleton, Colorado. His father, a native of Latvia, was a classical violinis ...
– keyboard
*
Eugene Friesen
Eugene Friesen (born 1952) is an American cellist and composer.
Early life
Friesen was born in 1952 to Russian Mennonite parents. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Music.
Career
Friesen has been a member of the Paul Winter Consort since 1 ...
– cello
*
Glen Velez
Glen Velez (born 1949) is a four-time Grammy winning American percussionist, vocalist, and composer, specializing in frame drums from around the world. He is largely responsible for the increasing popularity of frame drums in the United States an ...
– percussion
*
John-Carlos Perea – voice, drum, cedar flute
*
Koji Nakamura
is a Japanese musician who is most famous for being the lead singer/songwriter in the Japanese band Supercar (band), Supercar. –
taiko drum
are a broad range of Japanese percussion instruments. In Japanese, the term refers to any kind of drum, but outside Japan, it is used specifically to refer to any of the various Japanese drums called and to the form of ensemble drumming m ...
* Peter May –
conch shells
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In North ...
* Richard Cooke – voice
References
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2007 albums
Grammy Award for Best New Age Album
Living Music albums
Paul Winter Consort albums