Oregon is una banda de jazz y world fusión, creada en 1971 por Ralph Towner (guitarra, piano, sintetizador, trompeta), Paul McCandless (saxo soprano, oboe, corno inglés), Glen Moore (contrabajo, violín, piano) y
Collin Walcott (percusión, sitar, tabla) Todos ellos provenían de The Paul Winter Consort, el grupo de jazz étnico y world music del saxofonista Paul Winter de finales de los 1960s. Their contributions were seminal in establishing the Winter Consort "sound" in compositions like Towner's "Icarus."
The four musicians broke away from Winter in 1970 to form their own group, Oregon (Towner and Moore met while students at the University of Oregon). They recorded their first record in 1970, but the label, Increase Records, went out of business before it could be released. (It was released by Vanguard in 1980 as Our First Record.) The group's first release was Music of Another Present Era in 1972. With that debut and its follow-ups Distant Hills and Winter Light (all on...