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William Flynn

Described as “playing a mean guitar” (Wichita Eagle), William Flynn is a Kansas- based guitarist and composer emerging onto the contemporary jazz community with an increasingly original musical voice. William’s recent professional engagements include sharing the stage with saxophonist Bob Reynolds (John Mayer, Snarky Puppy), as well as performances at The Blue Room (Kansas City), the Charlie Parker Celebration Festival (Kansas City), and the Wichita Jazz Festival. William’s playing and composing can be heard on the Artists Recording Collective label (Traveler, 2017), and Armored Records (The Songbook Project, 2016). As a graduate student at the University of North Texas, William held the guitar chair with the world-renowned and Grammy-nominated One O’ Clock Lab Band

Seaside

By William Flynn

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Follow the Leader; January; Blue Ridge; 30A; Birthday Song; Sea Song; Heatwave; New Year; House of Savannah Street; Sundog.

Follow the Leader

June 22, 2022

Album: Seaside
By William Flynn
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 04:39

Cross Country

By William Flynn

Label: ARC - Artists Recording Collective
Released: 2018
Track listing: Dawn; Wildacres; Rose Creek; Prince’s Waltz; Stargazing; Winter Ballad; Anacapa; Homecoming.

William Flynn: Traveler

by Mark Sullivan
May 14, 2018

Wichita-based guitarist, composer and educator (Professor of Jazz Guitar at Wichita State University) William Flynn presents a brief program of evocative originals, accompanied by his quartet with pianist Addison Frei, double bassist Young Heo and drummer Matt Young. The mention of Wichita inevitably recalls the title of the Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays composition (and album) “As Falls ...

William Flynn: The Songbook Project

by Don Phipps
January 18, 2018

The Songbook Project from guitarist William Flynn provides jazz enthusiasts with great arrangements of some top-flight songs from the popular music catalog. On this album, one can hear jazz versions of music by the Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, and Jewel. The musicians all add color to the music. “Tonight Tonight" opens ...

Traveler

By William Flynn

Label: ARC - Artists Recording Collective
Released: 2017
Track listing: Prologue; Traveler; Warrior; Begin Again; Agitate; Awakening; Home.

The Songbook Project

By William Flynn

Label: Armored Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Tonight Tonight; Champagne Supernova; You Were Meant for Me; Codex; There There; Lights in the Sky.