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Paul McCandless
real name Paul Brownlee McCandless Jr.
Indiana, United States
Paul McCandless is credited on 616 releases across 170 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1969–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
616
Credits
170
Albums
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Decades active
66
In collections
Biography
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Paul McCandless (born March 24, 1947 in Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American multi-instrumentalist and founding member of the American jazz group Oregon. He is one of the few jazz oboists. He also plays bass clarinet, English horn, flute and soprano saxophone.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
616 releases · 170 albums · active 1969–2024
- Performance · 2,527
- Other credits · 179
- Production · 16
Studios: Tonstudio Bauer · Vanguard Studios · Budokan · Festival Hall, Osaka
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Hot House Flowers
1984

Out Of The Woods
1978

Soul Of The Machine (The Windham Hill Sampler Of New Electronic Music)
1987

Lost In The Stars - The Music Of Kurt Weill
1985

Invitation
1983

Roots In The Sky
1979

Oregon
1983

The Essential Oregon
1981

Distant Hills
1973

DMB Live Trax Vol. 7
2006

Live Art
1996

Night-glo
1985

Common Ground
1978

Together
1976

Icarus
1972

Road
1970

Something In The Wind
1969

Live At The Quick
2002

Live At Yoshi's
2002

Oregon In Moscow
2000

Outbound
2000

'Round The Wheel
1998

Beyond Words
1995

Troika
1994
Frequent collaborators
- Oregon
- Various
- Paul Winter (2)
- Eberhard Weber
- Windham Hill Artists
- David Friesen
- Jaco Pastorius Big Band
- Mark Isham
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