- Paul McCandless
Paul McCandless, Jr. (b. Indiana,
Pennsylvania ,United States ,March 24 ,1947 ) is an American jazz woodwind player andcomposer . He is one of few expert jazz oboists, and also plays English horn,soprano saxophone ,sopranino saxophone ,bass clarinet ,clarinet , andpennywhistle , among other instruments.He has performed with the
Paul Winter Consort and is a founding member of Oregon. In 1985 McCandless toured Europe with bassistBarre Phillips and German clarinetistTheo Jörgensmann . He has been a guest musician withBéla Fleck and the Flecktones (appearing on the 2002 album "Live at the Quick ") and has toured with tabla artistSandip Burman . He also was a guest ofThe 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.
External links
* [http://www.paulmccandless.com/ Paul McCandless official site]
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