George Winston: Seasons in Concert
George Winston: Seasons in Concert
Product Description
The Original PBS Special plus 25 minutes of extra concert footage. This all-digital live concert production, recorded exclusively for PBS, features a live concert performance from Nashville, as well as footage from Maui and Montana. George plays selections from his best-selling solo piano albums, including: AUTUMN, DECEMBER, WINTER INTO SPRING, SUMMER, FOREST, and selections from his then newest album LINUS & LUCY THE MUSIC OF VINCE GUARALDI, including Cast Your Fate To The Wind and some of Vince s pieces from the Peanuts® soundtracks, as well as a song from his then future album PLAINS. In addition, he plays Hawaiian Slack Key guitar pieces with Keola Beamer and Chet Atkins, as well as his own solo guitar and solo harmonica pieces. From his original solo piano compositions to his rollicking stride and R&B piano pieces, George Winston has been playing his own brand of melodic piano music, which is called folk piano or rural folk piano, since 1971. George s main piano influences include Henry Butler, the late James Booker, the late Professor Longhair, Fats Waller, and the late Teddy Wilson, as well as Dr. John, Philip Aaberg, Vince Guaraldi, Jon Cleary, Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand), Don Lambert, Art Tatum, and others. This concert DVD features some of George s most popular pieces, and includes: Rain, Cat & Mouse/ Handful of Keys, Blossom/Meadow, Opihi Moemoe, Kalena Kai, The Great Pumpkin Waltz/You re In Love Charlie Brown, MM s Dunk, The Cradle, Corrina Corrina, Peppermint Patty/Charlie Brown and His All-Stars, Cast Your Fate To The Wind, Woods, Pu`uanahulu, Waltz for the Lonely, Skating, Thanksgiving, Variations On The Kanon by Pachelbel, and High Plains Lullaby #19.
Review
Pianist George Winston shows off several sides of his musical personality in this concert video, in which he performs a number of his trademark atmospheric keyboard pieces, as well as blues and stride piano numbers, and even a few of his favorite pieces for the Hawaiian slack-key guitar. Filmed during appearances in Tennessee, Montana, and Hawaii, George Winston: Seasons in Concert includes the selections Rain, Woods, The Great Pumpkin Waltz/You're in Love, Charlie --Mark Deming, Rovi
About the Actor
George Winston grew up mainly in Montana, and also spent his later formative years in Mississippi and Florida. During this time, his favorite music was instrumental rock and instrumental R&B, including Floyd Cramer, the Ventures, Booker T & The MG s, Jimmy Smith, and many more. Inspired by R&B, jazz, Blues and rock (especially the Doors), George began playing organ in 1967. In 1971 he switched to the acoustic piano after hearing recordings from the 1920s and the 1930s by the legendary stride pianists Thomas Fats Waller and the late Teddy Wilson. In addition to working on stride piano, he also at this time came up with this own style of melodic instrumental music on solo piano, called folk piano. In 1972, he recorded his first solo piano album, BALLADS AND BLUES 1972, for the late guitarist John Fahey s Takoma label. Starting in 1972, George has released 13 solo piano albums, including his popular seasonal releases DECEMBER, AUTUMN, WINTER INTO SPRING, and SUMMER; as well as FOREST, PLAINS, and MONTANA A LOVE STORY; and his tribute albums LINUS AND LUCY The Music of Vince Guaraldi, LOVE WILL COME The Music of Vince Guaraldi Vol 2, and NIGHT DIVIDES THE DAY The Music of The Doors. George s latest full length album is 2012 s GULF COAST BLUES & IMPRESSIONS A Louisiana Wetlands Benefit. 100% of his proceeds from this album, as well as 100% of his proceeds from his 2006 GULF COAST BLUES & IMPRESSIONS A Hurricane Relief Benefit, are donated to help raise funds for the victims of Hurricane Katrina and for restoring the ecologically essential Louisiana Wetlands.