Paul McCandless
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Paul McCandless (b. Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States, March 24, 1947) is an American jazz woodwind player and composer. He is one of few expert jazz oboists, and also plays English horn, various sizes of saxophone, and bass clarinet, among other instruments.
He has performed with the Paul Winter Consort and Oregon, and has been a guest musician with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones (appearing on the 2002 album Live at the Quick) and has toured with tabla artist Sandip Burman.
McCandless comes from a musical family: his father, also named Paul McCandless, was also an oboist and English hornist, and his grandfather also played the oboe.
In 1984 McCandless toured Europe with bassist Barre Phillips and German clarinetist Theo Jörgensmann.