Paul McCandless
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| Born |
March 24, 1947 Indiana, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Composer, record producer, artist |
| Years active | 1970–present |
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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 |
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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
- 1997: with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Best Pop Instrumental Performance
- 2007: with Paul Winter Consort, Best New Age Album
- 2011: with Paul Winter Consort, Best New Age Album
Nominations (personally):
- CD “Oregon In Moscow”, 2001, Best Instrumental Composition
- CD “Oregon In Moscow”, 2001, Best Instrumental Arrangement
- CD Oregon “1000 kilometers”, 2009, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
Discography
Solo Projects
- All the Mornings Bring (Elektra/Asylum, 1978)
- Navigator (Landslide, 1981)
- Heresay (Windham Hill, 1988)
- Premonition (Windham Hill Jazz, 1992)
With Paul Winter Consort
- Something In The Wind (A&M Records, 1969)
- Road (A&M Records, 1970)
- Icarus (Epic Records, 1972)
With Oregon
on Vanguard
- Our First Record (recorded 1970, first released 1980)
- Music of Another Present Era (1972)
- Distant Hills (1973)
- Winter Light (1974)
- In Concert (1975)
- Together (1976), with drummer Elvin Jones
- Friends (1977)
- Violin (1978), with violinist Zbigniew Seifert
- Moon and Mind (1979)
on Elektra
- Out of the Woods (1978)
- Roots in the Sky (1979)
- In Performance (1980)
on ECM
on Intuition
- 45th Parallel (1989)
- Always, Never and Forever (1991)
- Troika (1993)
- Beyond Words (1995)
- Northwest Passage (1997)
- Music for a Midsummer Night's Dream (The Oregon Trio) (1998)
- In Moscow (2000), with the Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra
- Live at Yoshi's (2002)
on CamJazz
- Prime (2005)
- The Glide (1 track, new version on iTunes, 2005)
- 1000 Kilometers (2007)
- In Stride (2010)
- Family Tree (2012)
With Paul Winter
- Common Ground (A&M Records, 1978)
- Canyon (Living Music, 1985)
- Wolf Eyes (Living Music, 1988)
- Earth: Voices Of A Planet (Living Music, 1990)
With Fred Simon and Steve Rodby
- Since Forever, (Naim Audio, 2009)
- Remember The River, (Naim Audio, 2004)
With Art Lande
- Skylight (ECM, 1981)
- Shapeshifter (Synergy Music, 2004)
With Eberhard Weber
- Later That Evening (ECM, 1982)
- Endless Days (ECM, 2001)
With Ralph Towner
- City of Eyes (ECM, 1988)
With Béla Fleck
- Tales from the Acoustic Planet (Warner Bros., 1995)
With Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
- Live Art (Warner Bros., 1996)
- Outbound (Columbia, 2000)
- Live at the Quick (Columbia, 2002)
With Spencer Brewer
- Torches on the Lake (Access Music Label, 1996)
With Andrea Pellegrini
- Middle Earth (& Ensemble Ainulindalë. Symphonia Bluesmiles, SYB99904, 2000)
- West Coast (& West Coast Quintet / Marco Cattani. Il Poderino della Gioiosa, 2014)
With Comotion
- Head West (SCI Fidelity, 2000)
References
- Gioia, Tedd (2011). "The History of Jazz". Oxford University Press, Editor. Chapter 8 "Freedom and Fusion". ISBN 0195399706
- "Oregon" in "Dizionario della Musica e dei Musicisti, La Garzantina" (1983-2003). Garzanti, Editor, Milano (Italy). ISBN 88-11-50484-8
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