Paul Tynan

I’ll be brings my quartet to the Port Bickerton Arts Festival on August 22, 2026, 5pm.

Featuring Kevin Brunkhorst (Guitar), Lior Wainshtein (Bass) and Mark Adam (Drums), we’ll be playing some original music and a curated selections on standards.

Headed to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia this summer!

June 5 – Concert with the Bayan Mongol Big Band. They’ll be playing a new arrangement I wrote for them with some of my other compositions for big band. Location/Time TBA.

July 1 – Paul Tynan quartet. The Fat Cat Ulaanbattar, Mongolia. With Matrin Zenker (Bass), Bondoo (Drums), and Filip Baader (pno)

July 5-12 – I’ll be at the IASJ conference as the North American Rep. Lots of concerts, hangs, fun!

Hello, 2026 – nice to meet you.

I have some cool events coming up in early 2026.

January 12, St. FX is hosting Jorge Rossy – playing drums and vibes. I’m quite excited and have been checking out his recordings ever since I learned about the Brad Mehldau trio back in the day. I’ll be in the house band for that, along with a fair amount of the other faculty.

February 15, I’ll be playing in New Delhi, India at The Piano Man – Eldeco Center with Arjun Sagar Gupta’s band.

February 16, Playing Duo with Siddharth Gautam on Guitar at The Piano Man – Safdarjung, also in New Delhi, India.

February 18, I’ll be at the Global Music Institute in Greater Noida, India, for a workshop with their students. I’ll have a great trio with me of  Tanisha Bhatnager on bass, Lucas Fixel on drums, and Siddharth Gautam on guitar.

This fall has been a good one for road gigs.

September 4, 2025 – Island Jazz, with my Trio, Charlottetown, PEI.

September 25, 2025 – Cape Breton Jazz Festival with the East Coast Jazz All Stars, Syndey Nova Scotia.

I’m headed to Europe to play in David Braid’s band.

October 8, 2025 – Underground, Lund, Sweden

October 10-11, – Jeppis Jazz Festival, Jacobstad, Finland

We’re playing David’s Melodic Archetypes, a suite for small ensemble, on all the shows. It’s a gorgeous piece. Lush harmony and songlike melodies. This’ll be fun! At the Jeppis festival, Canadian Saxophone wizard Mark Dejong and I will also be hosting one of the Jam sessions. This’ll be fun!

I’m really looking forward to going back to Nepal where I’ll be spending a few months writing music, playing music, checking out as much stuff as I can and spending some time in residence at the Kathmandu Jazz Conservatory. 

A few years ago Jake Hanlon and I were invited to perform at the Jazzmandu festival and I was really taken in by the City and the people. It’s totally magical. Big thanks to Arts NS and St.FX for the support to make this a reality. I’ll be posting adventure pics on the socials.  Charge!  

Man, I am excited for ya’ll to hear this! The fine folks at Champion Version in the UK reached out to see if I’d be interested in releasing a project with them and boy howdy I sure was! It a duo with Adrean Farrugia on piano. It was beautifully recorded by Anthony Michelli in rural Nova Scotia.

It’ll be released digitally and in a limited edition 7-inch lathe-cut vinyl

Huge congratz to my coconspirators: Aaron Lington – Bari, Trifon Dimitrov – Bass and Joe Abba -Drums!!

Found out today that Bicoastal Collective chapter 6 was nominated for an ECMA Jazz recording of the year!

Full nominations list right here, folks!

Also, in the good news department, take affect just published a really great review of Bicoastal Collective, chapter 6

Read it here!! 9/10!

Bicoastal Collective Chapter 6 gets released on July 21! To say that I am proud of this is an understatement. Pre-orders here!

Super excited to be playing in Ireland this August doing a short tour with the Limerick Jazz Trio!! The trio features Joe O Callaghan on Guitar, Peter Hanagan on bass and John Daly on drums.

Aug 8 Dromoland Castle, Newmarket – On – Fergus

Aug 10 Dolans Kasbah Club, Limrick

Aug 12 Magys Farm, Belfast

Aug 13 The Cooler, Dublin

Aug 14 Crane Lane, Cork

There will also be a clinic – Details TBA and other possible gigs. Watch this Space!

What a ride the past few years have been. Aside from festivals, and other gigs coming back. I’m really excited to share a few projects I have recently been involved with.

My good friend and Albany-based piano player, Rob Lindquist asked me to play on a tune he wrote and then produced a video for. Dig his tune “Mirage” here. It features Joe Abba on Drums, Nick Mancini on Vibraphone , and Trifon Dimitrov on Bass.

And speaking of Joe Abba, his long-awaited album has just been released. It features some bad cats out of NYC! He’s worked with an incredibly wide range of musicians, from John Scofield, to Jessica Simpson, to Tommy and CJ Ramone.

You can dig the whole side here: https://joeabba.com/store. It’s a real mash-up that includes a ton of different sounds: Latin, fusion, funk, and rap.