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Paul Tynan

Born: March 7, 1975

The International Trumpet Guild has stated that Downbeat award winning trumpet player and composer, Paul Tynan’s “Creative Genius Shines”.

Paul is presently an Associate Professor of music at St. Francis Xavier University where he teaches jazz trumpet, jazz history, and arranging. He also co-leads the “BiCoastal Collective”, with Grammy winning saxophonist Aaron Lington. The ensemble is dedicated to performing new jazz composition across North America. Paul has released ten recordings as a leader/co-leader on the Origin/OA2, Armored, and NohJoh labels.

Ken Hohman's Iconoclastic List of the Top 9 Jazz Recordings for 2025

by Ken Hohman
January 9, 2026

I feel like a few of my favorite jazz records over the past year were overlooked or didn't fare well with many jazz critics. But I filter through a heck of a lot of jazz each year in advance of my radio shows, so I feel justified in being quixotic or even setting the record straight ...

After the Fire

By Kevin Brunkhorst

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: As Fate Would Have It; One Spring; As You Know; Daydream Manual; The Roaring Twenties; After the Fire; The Passing Months.

Kevin Brunkhorst: After the Fire

by Jack Bowers
August 13, 2025

Guitarist Kevin Brunkhorst, an alumnus of the University of North Texas and its celebrated One O'Clock Lab Band, has been teaching jazz in Canada for more than two decades, and his able sidemen on After the Fire are from the Nova Scotia area, where the album was recorded in October 2023. Brunkhorst moves ...

Bicoastal Collective: Chapter Six

By Paul Tynan

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: By Iron and Fire; Traveler from an Antique Land; Arbitrary Rules; Angles; Dark Halo; Surrounded.

Paul Tynan & Aaron Lington: Bicoastal Collective: Chapter Six

by Jack Bowers
August 22, 2023

In jazz terms, trumpeter Paul Tynan and baritone saxophonist Aaron Lington's Bicoastal Collective is a long-running series, as this marks the sixth recording produced during their sixteen-year partnership. As Chapters One to Five were splendid, it might have been advisable to close the book there. However, Tynan and Lington have chosen to forge ahead, and so ...

Arbitrary Rules

July 27, 2023

Album: Bicoastal Collective: Chapter Six
By Paul Tynan
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 05:18

Paul Tynan & Aaron Lington: Bicoastal Collective: Chapter Six

by Gary Carner
July 7, 2023

If you ask yourself: What is the definition of meaningtul contemporary jazz? What do well-crafted jazz tunes played by stellar musicians sound like? How do you combine fresh music ideas with the heritage of jazz as we know it? How do you inject various harmonic layers into jazz compositions and still make it sound accessible? What's ...

Autumn Song

By Jake Hanlon

Label: Armored Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Abcission 1; Autum Song; Tryed; Abcission 2; Between; Abcission 3; Waltz for My Sister; Abcission 4; The Night We Called it a Day; Abcission 5; Woodnote.

NSTX

By Jake Hanlon

Label: Armored Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Not Before Noon, Laws, Moments, Spancil Hill, Sight, Waiting, If Lyle met Lilly.