Paul McCandless

Paul McCandless

English: Paul McCandless, Concert with Oregon, Treibhaus Innsbruck 2010
Born (1947-03-24) March 24, 1947
Indiana, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation Composer, record producer, artist
Years active 1970–present

Musical career

Genres Jazz, New-age
Instruments oboe, English horn, soprano saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, and sopranino saxophone
Labels Atlantic, Windham Hill Records
Associated acts Oregon (band), Ralph Towner, Glen Moore, Collin Walcott, Paul Winter Consort, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, The String Cheese Incident
Website paulmccandless.com

Paul McCandless, Jr. (born March 24, 1947, Indiana, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz woodwind player and composer. He is one of few expert jazz oboists, and also plays English horn, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet, and pennywhistle, among other instruments.

He has performed with the Paul Winter Consort and is a founding member of Oregon. In 1985 McCandless toured Europe with bassist Barre Phillips and German clarinetist Theo Jörgensmann. He 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. He also was a guest of Leftover Salmon and the String Cheese Incident multiple times in the late 1990s.

In 2014, McCandless began performing his original compositions (recorded on his solo albums) with the Bay-Area based jazz trio Charged Particles, including opening the 2015 San Luis Obispo Jazz Festival with them on the main stage..

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.

Grammy Awards

Nominations (personally):

Discography

Solo Projects

With Paul Winter Consort

With Oregon

on Vanguard

on Elektra

on ECM

on Intuition

on CamJazz

With Paul Winter

With Fred Simon and Steve Rodby

With Art Lande

With Eberhard Weber

With Ralph Towner

With Béla Fleck

With Béla Fleck and the Flecktones

With Spencer Brewer

With Andrea Pellegrini

With Comotion

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