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Paul Tynan

Time for Dragons

About Me

Canadian trumpet player/composer Paul Tynan is presently living in San Jose California while on Sabbatical from St. Francis Xavier University where he teaches Jazz trumpet, Jazz arranging and directs the St. FX Jazz Nonet. He hold degrees from The University of North Texas, and SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music.Paul Tynan is an Edwards Trumpet Artist/Clinician.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/31/2005
Band Website: stfx.ca/people/ptynan/
Band Members:
Influences: Jesco the Dancing Outlaw, Kurt Vonnegut, Terry Gilliam, Mark Rothko, and some musicians.
Sounds Like: Jazzmobile April 20/07 Part 2

Add to My Profile | More VideosWith the Ashley Summers Quintet: Ashley Summers- Bass, Bobby Selvaggio- Saxes, Dave Restivo- Piano, Nate Douds- Drums, Paul Tynan- Trumpets
Record Label: NohJoh Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Recording New CD!

So next week Aaron Lington and I go into the studio with a dream band. We each wrote about 1/2 the music, and the charts are really cool. Here is a run down on the Band:Aaron Lington - bari sax -Co le...
Posted by Paul Tynan on Wed, 21 May 2008 09:22:00 PST

ITG Review of Radio Infrequency

The International Trumpet Guild got around to reviewing mt lastest record. It was in the ITG Journal March 08 issue. The reviewer is Logan Place. Here it is:This 2007 release features the unique jazz ...
Posted by Paul Tynan on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:21:00 PST

Story of Langston Premier Press Release

Greg Runions, presents his group in a special concert featuring Canadian trumpeter Paul Tynan.  For this performance the group will perform the world premier of Paul's jazz suite, The Story ...
Posted by Paul Tynan on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:41:00 PST

New Web Page and other stuff

Hi Everybody! I just wanted to let everybody know about my new web page. It's at www.paultynanjazz.com and it has sound clips, photos, a gig calendar, and a news section I'll be able to update o...
Posted by Paul Tynan on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:28:00 PST

www.pandora.com

You can now create a music station on pandora (very cool internet radio site) that will play my music. Just go to  www.pandora.com and create a station. Cool!!They have tons of great music in the...
Posted by Paul Tynan on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:48:00 PST

Radio Infrequency nominated for the ECMAs jazz recording of the year

I just found out that my latest CD, "Radio Infrequency" has been nominated for the East Coast Music Associations' jazz recording of the year. As some of you know this is a big deal in Canada (At least...
Posted by Paul Tynan on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:01:00 PST

Been a while Update

Since moving to San Jose I have been very fortunate to play with a bunch of cool bands and meet some really happening players. There is so much music here. It seems like every trumpet player here can ...
Posted by Paul Tynan on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:29:00 PST

New Tour

Looks like it time to hit the road again with Bobby Selvaggio's Quintet. We will be performing music from Bobby's new Playscape Recording release, Unspoken Dialogue. This is really an Amazing band and...
Posted by Paul Tynan on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:32:00 PST

Unspoken Dialogue reviewed in Down Beat!!

    Bobby Selvaggio / Unspoken Dialogue / 3 1/2 stars Fronting a capable and sensitive quintet, alto/soprano saxophonist Selvaggio bends the rules to his advantage. On the set's nine...
Posted by Paul Tynan on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:32:00 PST

Radio Infrequency reviewed for a second time in All About Jazz

The kind folks at www.allaboutjazz.com have published a second review:Review by Martin Gladu Throughout its successive waves of colonization, the foggy, Gulf-streamed shores of Nova Scotia, Canada h...
Posted by Paul Tynan on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:14:00 PST