UPPER LAKE, Calif. – On Sunday, May 27, at 3 p.m., the Tallman Hotel will present the innovative McCandless Foley-Beining Jazz Collaboration in an informal concert under the sycamore trees in the hotel garden.

“Our Concerts with Conversation season usually ends in April,” said owner Bernie Butcher, “but when we heard that Paul McCandless and Christian Foley-Beining were available over the Memorial Day weekend, we jumped at the chance to extend the season.”

A gifted multi-instrumentalist and composer, Paul McCandless specializes on the oboe but he is also a master of the saxophone and bass clarinet.

Well-grounded in both classical and jazz disciplines, he won a Grammy in 1996 for Best Pop Instrumental as guest artist with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.

During a distinguished three-decade career, McCandless has been integral to the ensemble sound of two seminal world music bands, the original Paul Winter Consort and the relentlessly innovative quartet OREGON.

A German native, Christian Foley-Beining is a powerful and innovative guitarist who studied at the Swiss Jazz School and Berklee School of Music.

He has been on the faculty of Musicians Institute in Hollywood and played guitar with greats such as Joe Pass, Pat Metheny, Ted Greene, Larry Carlton and others.

Rounding out the quartet will be Tom Shader on bass and percussionist Tom Hayashi.

Now based in Sonoma County, Tom Shader has been playing full time professionally since 1970 and lists as his jazz mentors such luminaries as Bob Lucas, Vince Delgado and Mimi Spenser.

Tom Hayashi began playing drums when he was eight years old and has worked extensively in orchestral settings, jazz clubs and rock bands.

“Paul McCandless has performed in our concert series three times previously,” says Butcher, "and each show has been fantastic. I know Christian and the two Toms to be true jazz professionals, so this quartet should produce a wonderful afternoon of music.”

Tickets cost $25 plus tax may be purchased by calling the Tallman at 707-275-2244, Extension 0.