Live At Kimball's East 1992

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Cat No: M12282

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Release Date: 06 March 2026

Label: Moosicus Records

Packaging Type: EcoPak

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Barcode: 885513122827

Genres: Jazz Fusion

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For fans of Oregon, Ralph Towner, Pat Matheney - Historical recordings of two exceptional musicians, Paul McCandless (Oregon) and Lyle Mays (Pat Metheny Group) - line-up: Paul McCandless (Oregon), Lyle Mays (Pat Metheny Group, Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones), Fred Simon (Larry Coryell, Ralph Towner, Beach Boys), Mark Walker (Oregon, Dave Liebman) Steve Rodby (Pat Metheny Group, Ramsey Lewis) All band members have been nominated for multiple Grammy Awards or have won Grammys in various categories - Audiophile listening pleasure thanks to sound engineering by Dan Feiszli and Steve Rodby (Chuck Mangione, Tom Paxton, Tyrone Davis, among others)>

Multi-instrumentalist Paul McCandless has been thrilling audiences for decades - He first became a member of saxophonist and world music pioneer Paul Winter's innovative New Age band "The Winter Consort" in the late 1960s - This was followed in the early 1970s by the groundbreaking chamber jazz quartet "Oregon," and in the early 1980s he was a member of the big band "Jaco Pastorius Word of Mouth." After his debut as a bandleader with All the Mornings Bring (1979) on the Elektra label, McCandless teamed up with pianist Art Lande and vibraphonist Dave Samuels in 1981 for the impressive album Skylight (ECM). In the same year, he released his second solo album, Navigator, on the Landslide label. This was followed by two spectacular band projects at Windham Hill: "Hearsay" (1988) and "Premonition" (1992), the latter produced by bassist Steve Rodby and featuring Lyle Mays on piano, Fred Simon on keyboards, and Mark Walker on drums. With the same outstanding lineup, he gave nine concerts in the summer of 1992, beginning with a performance on July 4 at the Montreal Jazz Festival, followed by three evenings (August 21 to 23) at Kimball's East in the Bay Area. A DAT cassette of this performance was stored in McCandless' private archive for decades before being discovered a year ago. Co-producer Jon Krosnick, whose San Francisco-based band Charged Particles toured extensively with Paul McCandless from 2015 to 2019, said: "One day I was at Paul's house sorting through material for his website. When he climbed a ladder to get into a small storage room in the garage, he found a poorly labeled tape. I took it home, played it, and immediately thought, 'We have to release this.'"

Thanks to the sound engineering of Steve Rodby and Dan Feiszli, Live at Kimball's East is now a professional document of the group's extraordinary chemistry in concert. Rodby says, "My relationship with Paul, this music, and these memories are very precious to me. It's a joy to bring it all back to life. The release of this live set from 1992 is a poignant reminder of the deep sense of loss we all felt with the passing of Lyle Mays in 2020." Pat Metheny's longtime songwriting partner and founding member of the Pat Metheny Group (from 1978 to 2005) was also a kindred spirit of Paul McCandless. Their magical connection, already evident on Premonition, is even more impressive and intense on these live tracks from Kimball's East.
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