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The Paul Winter Sextet

Band,
Jazz, Folk and World

Formed while Paul Winter was a student at Northwestern University in Chicago, the Paul Winter Sextet won the Intercollegiate Jazz Festival held at Georgetown Universty, judged by Dizzy Gillespie and John Hammond, in May 1961. Hammond signed the group to Columbia Records. The Sextet recorded a total of five albums between 1961 and 1964 and were among the first to blend Brazilian bossa nova and folk music with their jazz. In 1962 they toured Latin America as cultural ambassadors for the United States State Department, playing 160 concerts in 23 countries. The Sextet was also the first jazz band to perform at the White House.

Members

	Jeremy Steig fl *1942 US
	Harold Jones dr *1940 US
	Richard Evans b
	Arthur Harper b US
	Ben Riley dr *1933 US
	Chuck Israels b *1936 US
	Cecil McBee b *1935 US
	Freddie Waits dr 1940-1989 US
	Sam Brown g 1939-1977 US
	Warren Bernhardt p, key *1938 US
	Jay Cameron bs, sax 1928-2001 US
	Paul Winter ss, sax *1939 US
	Dick Whitsell tr 1936-1986 US
	Les Rout bs 1935-1987 US