A whole conglomerate of jazz, rock, funk, free, and mad music. Because of the collaboration of the other musicians, I feel I can't rightly list all the influences because I am no longer in close contact with these fellas.
Welcome to Finn's page...
Of late I've been living and working in St. Lucia, West Indies, where I teach winds at the St. Lucia School of Music. Besides pulling my hair out for the enjoyment of the Lucian youth, I play in a jazz quintet, Annexus, and a quartet, Jazzari. Mostly what I've been engaged in is arranging and composing for different local artists and the school band. Not very exciting shit, but I've gotten a chance to get into the local Calypso, Soca, Masquerade, LaComette, etc. and I always try and fuse jazz ideas into this. The local population in St. Lucia ain't really into jazz so it's a struggle but we try and use the ideoms they know to bring them a new sense of harmony and what-not. Anyway...posted here are some originals from way back at the Neutral Ground in New Orleans (Gone Again and Chaos Theory) and two new recordings we just put together at Studio Nine Records in Anse La Raye, St. Lucia. One features Majesty (I'm a Boss) and the other features Emerson Nurse ..boards (Just a Little Piece...). Anyway enjoy...and look out for Majesty's upcoming full length album "Memoirs of the Caribbean Mafia" - my first hip-hop producing.
