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Morning Sun: Adventures with Oboe Paul McCandless with the Paul Winter Consort, A Retrospective will be released on September 22, 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. Notes Paul Winter, With this anthology, I set out to gather a treasury of Paul McCandless masterful playing, and found that it also became, quite unintentionally, a retrospective of the Consort the most extensive yet done. Listening through the entire album, I am thrilled with every note. 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 of 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. Highlights include the Consort s Common Ground album in 1977, their recording expeditions in the Grand Canyon for the album Canyon in 1985 and in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Colorado for the Crestone album in 2006. Scenic international adventures with the Consort have included sojourns in the Shigaraki Mountains of Japan for the 2008 album Miho: Journey to the Mountain and in the Rift Valley of Kenya for the upcoming Flyways album. Morning Sun: Adventures with Oboe Paul McCandless with the Paul Winter Consort, A Retrospective is dedicated to McCandless fellow oboist, the late Sir George Martin, the famed producer of albums by the Beatles, as well as the Paul Winter Consort s album, Icarus. In his autobiography, Playback, Martin gave the Consort the accolade of a lifetime, referring to Icarus as the finest record I have ever made. Accompanying the album is a 32-page booklet containing an engaging chronicle by Paul Winter that presents a first-person account of the Paul Winter Consort s history and the memorable times Winter has shared with Paul McCandless through the years, as well as notes on each track and selected photos. Paul McCandless has taken his instrument to places no oboist has gone before ... I am in awe of his playing. He soars, like the migrating raptors. His playing is both adventurous and lyrical, two of the qualities I value most in jazz. He sets a very high bar. Paul Winter