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I’m playing with Maple & Beach this Saturday at Bryant Lake Bowl and Theater in Minneapolis. Really proud of my friends Tyler and Pete. They made an awesome album, and I am excited to be a small part of it. … Continue reading →

I was recently interviewed by the wonderful Bobbi Pominville, for the Western Wisconsin Journal.  We had a very Midwestern chat about jazz, teaching and the weather.

Very excited to be playing with Maple & Beech again. Check out these two new videos and get excited about shows and a new full length album!

A huge thank you to everyone who helped make this project happen: Pete James Johnson, Ted Godbout, Ted Olsen, The Skeleton Room, Tyler Tholl, Charlie McCarron, Oanh Vu, and Huntley Miller. The album is now available in full at nicksyman.bandcamp.com … Continue reading →

Nick Syman Quartet’s first album will be released November 10, 2016!  We will be celebrating with a 9pm release show at Reverie in Minneapolis as part of Thursday Night Jazz at Reverie.

For the second year, my friends at MNKINO and Composer Quest have teamed up for the MNKINO Film Score Fest.  20 film makers made short films and 20 composer wrote scores.  The scores will be played by a live orchestra … Continue reading →

Last January I realized that I had spent too much time theorizing about putting various groups together and no time actually following through with these plans.  So I started writing tunes for a small jazz group.  Since then I have finished … Continue reading →

I am playing with a stripped down version of AMO in an opera based on Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood. Check it out at http://www.tempotickets.com/event/Ejln1F

The AMO album came out last fall and I am finally getting around to posting about it. Really proud of how it turned out. It got a lot of great reviews, but the coolest bit of press was definitely our … Continue reading →

Our Kickstarter has been fully funded and we are heading to the studio this weekend!  You still have 5 more days to pre-order the album.  So excited to be a part of this project.  Keep an eye out for updates.