Morning Sun: Adventures with Oboe -- Paul McCandless with the Paul Winter Consort, A Retrospective will be released on October 20, 2017. The album is an anthology of double-reed master Paul McCandless' superb recordings with the 7-time Grammy®-winning Paul Winter Consort over the past 45 years, serving as both an historical retrospective and a tribute to McCandless' legendary musicianship and creativity.
Paul McCandless occupied the oboe and English horn chair of the
Paul Winter Consort from 1968 to 1972. He went on to become a founding member of the acclaimed quartet Oregon, with whom he has played for the past 40 years. He has also performed with Wynton Marsalis, Pat Metheny, Steve Reich, the String Cheese Incident, and the Tchaikovsky
Symphony Orchestra in Moscow, among many other luminaries. His collaboration with Béla Fleck resulted in their winning the 1996 Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental.
As a jazz musician, McCandless has established himself internationally as the pre-eminent voice of oboe and English horn improvisation. As a classical artist, he has performed with numerous symphony and chamber music ensembles in the U.S. and abroad. Despite his intense calendar of commitments,
Paul McCandless has always reserved time to continue performing and recording with the Paul Winter Consort.
In the manner of a concert performance, the music on
Morning Sun proceeds according to a natural flow, beginning with "All the Mornings Bring" from the Paul Winter Consort's groundbreaking 1971 album, Icarus, where the unique brand of Paul McCandless' intense oboe lyricism transitions into tour de force virtuosity as he takes the listener on an improvisational ride that's like cascading over a Rocky Mountain waterfall.
McCandless turns to the deeper sounding English horn in "On the Steppes of Central Asia," an essay on
Alexander Borodin's haunting melody, which paints a scene of majestic immensity originally included on the 2008 album, Miho:
Journey to the Mountain.
Other highlights include "Witchi Tai To," from Crestone, in which Native American singer John-Carlos Perea offers a Comanche song of healing that becomes the basis for rhapsodic oboe improvisation by McCandless; "Um Abraço" from the Consort's 1970 live album, Road, which marked McCandless' first commercial recording on oboe; "Sunderland," from the 2010 album Earth Music, in which McCandless transforms an original tune by jazz master Jeff Holmes into a dissertation on just about everything that can be done on the English horn: and a live recording of J.S. Bach's
Fantasia in G that gives McCandless the chance to improvise an exuberant, "wild and woolly" oboe cadenza.
Morning Sun: Adventures with Oboe -- Paul McCandless with the Paul Winter Consort, A Retrospective will be available atwww.paulwinter.com.
CD Details: Morning Sun: Adventures with Oboe -- Paul McCandless with the Paul Winter Consort, A Retrospective
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Label: Living Music
SRP: $15.00 for CD. $8.99 for digital download.
Running time: 66 minutes
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