![]() ![]() But the other factor is that as I’ve matured, I’ve also appreciated the development of maturing artists more. To this reviewer, “Winter Into Spring” is now my go-to Winston album, if only because I’ve heard “Autumn” so many times that it’s hard to have any perspective on it any more. Where “Autumn” is all amber hues and slowly changing colors, “Winter Into Spring” is crisp footsteps in the snow, cold moonlit nights, and then finally the burst of weak radiance of a Spring sun and wild mustard flowers. As always, Winston finds inspiration not just in the seasons, but as the seasons exist in the plains states – Montana in particular. Comparing the two albums is necessary, as so many millions of copies of Autumn have been sold, but it’s also problematic, in that Autumn has a different emotional appeal, much as the seasons themselves draw on different aspects of the listener’s experience. Songs that drew from classical and jazz traditions, but mainly the beautiful and deceptively simple traditions of folk music. Truly, it takes a mature artist to be able to strip down a song, and still have a complex and lingering effect. And those few bars that were so noticeable in their simplicity and purity soon gave way to Winston’s lushly chromatic songs. Winston’s “Autumn” had given Will Ackerman a new level of financial freedom to fuel his artistic vision.įrom the time “Winter Into Spring” first dropped onto the turntables of George Winston fans everywhere, there was a sense that some portions of the songs “were so simple a child could play them.” The magic is that they were so simple that no child actually would play them. Winter Into Spring is the third George Winston album released, his second on Windham Hill, and the 19th Windham Hill album. Whether it’s the quick study in a notebook that a Picasso or Matisse can use to convey motion, mood and sentiment, or the way an actor can almost imperceptibly move their face to convey a deep undercurrent of emotion, it’s a skill that is highly underrated. There’s a certain simplicity in any art that it takes a master to achieve. ![]()
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