'If people remember me for anything, I hope it's for helping to make slack-key as visible as other guitar traditions,' the top-selling New Age pianist said in a 1996 interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune
Unlike many musicians who sold millions of album and drew devoted concert audiences for several decades, George Winston did not want to be remembered.
More specifically, the music he championed on his Dancing Cat record label by such noted Hawaiian slack-key guitarists as Cyril Pahinui and Ray Kane. But his next album, 1980’s pastoral “Autumn,” put him on the map, along with Windham Hill, the nascent Palo Alto record company that soon became one of the most successful independent labels in the nation.
“I like playing music a lot, and I like telling people about the people I came from probably even more,” Winston explained.By George Varga, Music CriticMany musicians dream of achieving immortality. George Winston is not one of them.want to be remembered,” said the Grammy Award-winning New Age pianist, who performs Saturday night at downtown’s Spreckels Theatre.
A catch-all phrase, New Age was coined to describe predominantly acoustic instrumental music characterized by spare, overtly melodic songs that favor simplicity over complexity and gentleness over emotional fervor. Winston, whose early influences ranged from the Ventures to Herb Alpert, responded by largely shunning the media.
“But I’m just playing tunes. I guess you could call Segovia New Age, because he sounds more like New Age than heavy metal.
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