"Chapter Five,"
Fifth Album by the
Paul Tynan & Aaron Lington
Bicoastal Collective,
Set for Release May 19 by OA2 Records
Fifth Album by the
Paul Tynan & Aaron Lington
Bicoastal Collective,
Set for Release May 19 by OA2 Records
First Big-Band Album by
North Texas State One O'Clock Jazz Lab Alums
Features Their Original Compositions &
Celebrates Their Modern Approach
To Trumpet-Baritone Sax Front Line
North Texas State One O'Clock Jazz Lab Alums
Features Their Original Compositions &
Celebrates Their Modern Approach
To Trumpet-Baritone Sax Front Line
April 14, 2017
Since joining forces in 2008 as the Bicoastal Collective, trumpeter Paul Tynan and baritone saxophonist Aaron Lington have recorded a series of outstanding albums ranging in instrumentation from tentet to quintet to sextet to a quintet featuring a Hammond B-3 organist. Chapter Five,
their fifth album and the first with a full 18-piece big band, adds a
sumptuous new volume to the duo's already impressive discography. The
new CD will be released May 19 by OA2 Records.
As on its predecessors, Tynan and Lington shared writing and
arranging credits; each contributed four compositions to the new
recording."Our goal with every project has been to do all-original
music, always with a different ensemble," Lington explains. "It's always
been our dream to do a big-band record, and we were finally able to
make this happen." The result is a highly original take on the
trumpet-baritone frontline tradition pioneered by jazz masters who
inspired them, such as Thad Jones-Pepper Adams and Chet Baker-Gerry Mulligan.
Despite living on opposite sides of North America -- hence the name Bicoastal Collective
-- Tynan and Lington have remained friends over the decades since
meeting at University of North Texas, where both began work on their
master's degrees in 1998 and both played in the school's One O'Clock Lab Band a year apart. (Tynan
now lives in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where he's a Professor at St.
Francis Xavier University, while Lington is Coordinator of Jazz Studies
at San Jose State University in California.) They started recording together when both were in San Jose in 2008 and, on
Lington's recommendation, Tynan spent a sabbatical year teaching at San
Jose State and Chabot College and playing around Northern California
with the likes of Poncho Sanchez, Keely Smith, and, of course, Lington.
Arranging for the session to take place at the
mid-continental point of Dallas (also close to their alma mater in
Denton), Tynan and Lington recorded Chapter Five over
two days in July 2016 with 16 handpicked players. "We wanted to record
an album featuring all the people who we really trusted with the music,"
says Tynan. "A lot of them are our best friends, people we've worked
with in the past or some we went to school with."
The music on Chapter Five ranges from "Two Views,"
an extremely swinging Lington composition that finds Tynan and drummer
Stockton Helbing in an inspired musical dialogue over the band's
aggressive ensemble work, to "I Remember Every Day," which features solos by Lington and guitarist Noel Johnston and was inspired by a hypnotic groove by drummer Omar Hakim.
Tynan penned "Charting Stars," which features his warm solos on flugelhorn, as a showcase for David Lown's soulful tenor saxophone. Tynan's ballad "Karma's Song" spotlights Lington's rich, at times biting baritone saxophone solo over the lovely ensemble arrangement.
Paul Tynan
was born in 1975 in Fort Erie, Ontario. The family moved to Houston
when he was 5 and to Buffalo when he was 13. He took up the trumpet in
the sixth grade. At the Crane School of Music/SUNY in Potsdam, New York,
he studied with trombonist and composer Bret Zvacek and heard some of the university's jazz groups. He didn't begin playing jazz, however, until he met trumpeter Tim Hagans during a trip to Sweden. 
Aaron Lington
was born in1974 in Houston and raised in nearby Highlands, Texas, where
he played piano, violin, and guitar before taking up alto and baritone
saxophones in high school. While doing his undergraduate work at the
University of Houston, he did a number of short tours with rock 'n' roll
legend Bo Diddley, with whom he played tenor sax.
After earning his master's in 2001, Tynan began working at
St. Francis Xavier University, where he presently teaches jazz trumpet,
jazz history, and arranging. His arrangements, many of which have been
recorded by college jazz bands, are available from Maxwell Tree Music,
Eighth Note Publications, UNC Jazz Press, and Walrus Music Publishing.
After receiving his doctorate from North Texas in 2004,
Lington accepted his current position at San Jose State University. His
charts have been performed by the Maynard Ferguson's Big Bop Nouveau and
the Count Basie Orchestra, as well as by the Pacific Mambo Orchestra,
in which he plays. Four of the numbers on the 19-member mambo
orchestra's 2014 Grammy Award-winning debut album were arranged by
Lington.
Photography: Bernice MacDonald (Tynan), Tracy Cavano (Lington)
Web Site: paultynanjazz.com / aaronlington.com
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