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“Sunwheel” features Ralph Towner’s keyboard artistry on a little double-reed Renaissance pipe organ, called a regal (which we referred to as our “keyboard duck”).

The dynamism of Herb Bushler’s bass-playing sparked us to imagine having a full-tilt drum-kit player on the piece. When we scheduled our additional sessions at Electric Ladyland in New York that September, Herb recommended I call Billy Cobham.

Billy listened to the track once through and then did this overdub in one take. (I recall him telling us about this new band he had just joined called the Mahavishnu Orchestra, with John McLaughlin. He said that in their concerts they played really loud.)

The array of “sun-sparkles” on the tag are tiny tuned cymbals called crotales.

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from Consorting with David, released February 26, 2021
Written by Ralph Towner
(Distant Hills Music, ASCAP)

Paul Winter / soprano sax
Paul McCandless / oboe
David Darling / cello
Ralph Towner / 12-string guitar, regal
Herb Bushler / Fender bass
Collin Walcott / percussion
Billy Cobham / drums

From the album Icarus
Produced by George Martin
Recorded at Seaweed Studio, Marblehead, Massachusetts, and Electric Ladyland, New York
August/September, 1971

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Paul Winter is a seven-time Grammy-winning saxophonist, whose sextet was the first jazz group to perform at the White House in 1962. His second group, the Paul Winter Consort, interweaves sounds from the natural world with classical and ethnic traditions, and the spontaneous spirit of jazz. Their annual Winter Solstice Celebrations and Earth Mass are among the most popular events in New York. ... more

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