LAKEPORT, Calif. – In support of two recent CD releases, Grammy winner and world-renowned jazz superstar Paul McCandless and the Bay-Area jazz trio Charged Particles will be appearing at the Soper Reese Theatre at 7 p.m. Saturday, January 11, as part of the theatre’s Saturday Night Jazz club Series.

Tickets are now on sale. $20 open seating.

The show is sponsored by Carol and Steve Schepper.

Known for soaring lyricism and gorgeous compositions, McCandless recently celebrated his 47th anniversary as co-leader of the jazz super-group Oregon.

He plays soprano, tenor, and sopranino saxophones, oboes, English horn, bass clarinet, penny whistles, and a collection of folk flutes, and has released 40 records.

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

He also won Grammys in 2007 and 2011 with the Paul Winter Consort, for Best New Age Album. And his performance on the Oregon CD “1000 kilometers” was nominated for a Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo in 2009.

One of the new CD releases is “Morning Sun – Adventures with Oboe,” billed as “A Retrospective Celebrating 45 Years of Genre-Bending Iconic Mastery” by McCandless in concert with his long-time collaborator: Paul Winter.

The second CD is the 30th album by Oregon, the super-group that McCandless co-founded, entitled “Lantern.”

The McCandless/Charged Particles project is bringing alive McCandless’ repertoire of original compositions that have been featured on his solo records over the years, and the collaboration adds a fresh twist and new energy to McCandless’ music.

The Charged Particles trio features Murray Low, keyboards; Aaron Germain, basses; and Jon Krosnick, drums.

The group premiered together on the main stage at the famed jazz club Yoshi’s in San Francisco in 2014, and their jazz club appearances have included Birdland (New York City), Blues Alley (Washington, DC), Motion Blue (Jakarta, Indonesia), and Spin Jazz (Oxford, United Kingdom). They have taught master classes at Kelowna Secondary School (Kelowna, Canada), MacEwan University (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, Arkansas), Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK), and Bath Spa University (Bath, UK).

To purchase tickets go online at www.SoperReeseTheatre.com, or to The Travel Center, 825 S. Main, or purchase tickets at the theatre's box office, 275 S. Main St., Lakeport, up to two hours before show time.