track, received 2001 Grammy nominations for Best Instrumental Composition and Best Instrumental Arrangement. In 2014, 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 (in New York City), Blues Alley (in Washington, D.C.), Yoshi's Jazz Club, The Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, The Dakota Jazz Club, and other venues throughout the U.S. In 2017, McCandless and Charged Particles did a ten-day tour of Indonesia, performing at the Motion Blue Jazz Club (Jakarta), Jazz Centrum (Surabaya), and the Jazz Gunung Bromo Festival (on Mount Bromo) Reception The London Telegraph called McCandless's contribution to The Great Jubilee Concert "remarkable". Said Jazz Journal, "Paul McCandless delivered terrific, beautifully modulated solos on both oboe and soprano." The Washington Post called McCandless a "stellar player" who plays "sparkling harmonic cascades." Awards and honors Grammy Award, Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male, with Al Jarreau, 1993 Grammy Award, Best Pop Instrumental Performance with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, 1996 Grammy Award, Best New Age Album, with Paul Winter Consort, 2007, 2011 Grammy Award Nomination, Best Instrumental Composition, Best Instrumental Arrangement, Oregon in Moscow, 2001 Grammy Award Nomination, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, 1000 Kilometers, 2009 Winner, Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition, Down Beat Magazine Critics' Poll, 1976, 1978 Discography As leader All the Mornings Bring (Elektra, 1979) Navigator (Landslide, 1981) Skylight with Art Lande, Dave Samuels (ECM, 1981) Heresay (Windham Hill, 1988) Premonition (Windham Hill, 1992) Squanto and the First Thanksgiving (Rabbit Ears, 1993) Sentimental Sax (Nature Quest, 1995) The Natural Saxophone (NorthSound, 1995) Torches on the Lake with Spencer Brewer (Access, 1996) Twilight (Impressions, 1996) Summer Nights with Spencer Brewer (Impressions, 1996) The Hidden Jewel with Art Lande (Mystica, 2002) Perfect Alignment with Steven Halpern (Inner Peace Music, 2002) Shapeshifter with Art Lande (Synergy Music 2004) With Oregon Music of Another Present Era (Vanguard, 1972) Distant Hills (Vanguard, 1973) Winter Light (Vanguard, 1974) In Concert (Vanguard, 1975) Together (Vanguard, 1976) Friends (Vanguard, 1977) Violin (Vanguard, 1978) Out of the Woods (Elektra, 1978) Moon and Mind (Vanguard, 1979) Roots in the Sky (Elektra, 1979) In Performance (Elektra, 1980) Our First Record (Vanguard, 1980) Oregon (ECM, 1983) Crossing (ECM, 1985) Ecotopia (ECM, 1987) 45th Parallel (Portrait, 1989) Always, Never, and Forever (veraBra, 1991) Troika (veraBra, 1994) Beyond Words (Chesky, 1995) Northwest