Premonition | ||||
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Released | 1992 | |||
Recorded | October–December 1991 | |||
Genre | New-age, [1] jazz fusion | |||
Label | Windham Hill | |||
Producer | Paul McCandless, Steve Rodby | |||
Paul McCandless chronology | ||||
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Premonition is an album by the American jazz instrumentalist Paul McCandless, recorded in 1992 for Windham Hill Records. [2] [3]
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