Paul Winter Consort

So you go in and maybe you want to have lunch.

So you go down and there's the cafe where Paul and the And pictures are all over the walls

of all the people who recorded there.

And it's just a fantastic experience.

And I did the same thing with the whole chord going on and then went on.

And I played it for various friends.

One of them was Paul Winter, the Paul Winter Consort.

and my friend adam golko is the pianist who plays my music and they both listened to it and paul said i really like this piece and the idea but at the beginning i feel you're going through the motions which was extremely astute i was playing out this pattern that i had and adam meanwhile looked at the score and he put his finger on measure thirteen and said here's where it goes south and that's when i realized not to use the whole chord all the time but to use parts of it and build it in these textures in which they're playing the same arpeggio again at different speeds at the same time and i was working with it and composing with it and said this reminds me of a river And specifically, it reminds me of a beautiful day with Adam Golka and another friend on the river around here.

And so that led to me playing with all kinds of different people, from John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Junior Wells, and Buddy Guy, and Jim and Gene and Harvey Brooks and Dave Brubeck, Weather Report.

I did the Weather Report Sweet Nighter album, which was a million seller, and played with Paul Winter Concert.

And there, I was able to play with classical musicians and jazz and pop fused together.

And we did things like the Bach Cantata 127 with a Proclo Harum, Whiter Shade of Pale kind of beat.

Do the Bach Cantata.

Ba, ba, ba, dee, da.

You could get it on YouTube, Paul Winter, Bach Cantata 127.

And so I imagined my drum beats, how they would go, you know, because Bach was actually a spiritual jazz guy, you know, because he could do improvisations.