Paul McCandless

Artist: Paul McCandless

Similar Artists:

Orison, Schönerz & Scott, Nightnoise, Metamora, Paul Halley

Influenced By:

Paul Winter

Followers:

Stein & Walder

Performed Songs By:

Carla Bley, Spencer Brewer

Worked With:

Glen Velez, Glen Moore, Collin Walcott, Ralph Towner, Michael Manring, David Darling

Formal Connection With:

Kit Walker, Ensemble Ainulindale, Andrea Pellegrini

Born: March 24, 1947, Indiana, PA
Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s
Genres: Jazz
Instrument: Oboe, Horn (English), Sax (Soprano)
Representative Albums: "Heresay," "Shapeshifter," "All the Mornings Bring"
Representative Songs: "Premonition," "Rainland," "Come Together"

Biography

A talented multi-instrumentalist, Paul McCandless is best-known for his longtime association with Oregon and for the floating and meditative sounds that he achieves out of his unusual combination of instruments. McCandless played in Paul Winter's band the Winter Consort (1968-1973) and then (with Ralph Towner, Glen Moore, and Collin Walcott) he left the group to form Oregon. McCandless is primarily associated with Oregon (which was operating on a part-time basis in the 1990s), although he has also played and recorded with Gallery and Eberhard Weber and has led sessions of his own for Elektra, Landslide, and Windham Hill. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

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Paul McCandless, Jr. (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, soprano saxophone, sopranino 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 The String Cheese Incident multiple times in the late 1990s.

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.

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