11 Facts About Paul McCandless

Paul McCandless plays bass clarinet, English horn, flute, penny whistle, tenor saxophone, sopranino saxophone, and soprano saxophone.

Paul McCandless's father taught him clarinet, his mother piano, and he attended the Manhattan School of Music.

In 1996, Paul McCandless won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.

Paul McCandless won Grammys in 2007 and 2011 with the Paul Winter Consort for Best New Age Album and in 1993 for Al Jarreau's album Heaven and Earth.

Paul McCandless won the Down Beat Critics' Poll for Best Established Combo, the Deutscher Schallplatten Preis for his album Ectopia, and the Arbeitskreis Jazz im Bundesverband der Phonographishen Wirtschaft Gold Record Award.

In 1985, Paul McCandless toured Europe with bassist Barre Phillips and German clarinetist Theo Jorgensmann.

Paul McCandless has been a guest musician with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, appearing on the 1999 album Greatest Hits of the 20th Century and the 2002 album Live at the Quick, and has toured with tabla musician Sandip Burman.

Paul McCandless was a guest of Leftover Salmon and The String Cheese Incident in the late 1990s.

Paul McCandless has appeared on stage in duets with pianist Art Lande, with whom he recorded the album Skylight.

In 2014, Paul McCandless began performing with Charged Particles a jazz trio based in San Francisco, including opening the 2015 San Luis Obispo Jazz Festival with them and headlining at the Stanford Jazz Festival.

The quartet has appeared at Birdland, Blues Alley, Yoshi's Jazz Club, The Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, The Dakota Jazz Club, and other venues throughout the US In 2017, Paul McCandless and Charged Particles did a ten-day tour of Indonesia, performing at the Motion Blue Jazz Club, Jazz Centrum, and the Jazz Gunung Bromo Festival.