Live at Kimball's East is a professional-grade document of the group's rare onstage chemistry. "We all really enjoyed it," McCandless said.

In 1992, Paul McCandless released Premonition, produced by bassist Steve Rodby. The album featured Lyle Mays on piano, Fred Simon on keyboards, and Mark Walker on drums. That same outstanding crew performed nine concerts that summer, beginning with an appearance on July 4 at the Montreal Jazz Festival and concluding with a three-night engagement from August 21 to 23 at Kimball's East in the San Francisco Bay Area. A DAT tape of their Kimball's East performance sat in McCandless's home archives for decades before being discovered recently. Co-producer Jon Krosnick, whose San Francisco-based band, Charged Particles, toured extensively with McCandless from 2015 to 2019, said: 'One day, I was at Paul's house, sorting through material to build his website. He climbed a ladder up to a little storage area in the garage. That's where he found a tape that wasn't well-marked. I brought it home, played it, and immediately thought, 'We've got to release this.'

Sonically improved by Rodby and fellow bassist, producer, and recording engineer Dan Feiszli using cutting-edge, AI-driven mixing technology, Live at Kimball's East now stands as a professional-grade document of the group's rare chemistry in concert. 'My relationship with Paul, this music, and these memories are very precious to me,' said Rodby. 'It's a joy to revisit it all.'

'The release of this live set from 1992 is a poignant reminder of the profound sense of loss we all felt from Lyle Mays's passing in 2020.' Mays, the longtime writing partner of Pat Metheny and charter member of the Pat Metheny Group from 1978 to 2005, was also a kindred spirit to McCandless. The magical connection apparent on Premonition becomes even more pronounced on these live tracks from Kimball's East.

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Track Listing

• Robin
• Punch
• The Marvelous Harlequin Duck
• Last Bloom
• Rainland
• Hard Eights
• Free
• Cloudy This Morning
• Tail Wind
• Slink

Additional Details

Label: Moosicus

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 72:50 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 02/27/26

UPC: 885513122827