Barry Finnerty

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Michael Barry Finnerty (born December 3, 1951 in San Francisco ) is an American fusion musician ( guitar , keyboards ), who is best known for his work as a studio musician . He has also directed his own bands and written two textbooks.

Live and act

Finnerty, son of the actor Warren Finnerty (1924–1974), grew up in California and partly in Hong Kong . As a five-year-old he received piano lessons; at the age of 13 he started playing the guitar; he soon played in beat bands . From 1969 to 1972 he was with Beefy Red. He studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the University of California, Berkeley . In 1971 he also attended Berklee College of Music .

Then he moved to New York City , where he played from 1973 with Chico Hamilton , with whom he also performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival . In 1975 Joe Farrell brought him into his band; then he was a member of Blood, Sweat & Tears . Between 1978 and 1981 he was part of the Brecker Brothers ; from 1979 to 1984 he also worked for The Crusaders and for John Serry . He also founded the PM group with Carl Palmer , Todd Cochran , John Nitzinger and Eric Scott . In 1980 he toured Europe with Billy Cobham . In 1981, he took with Miles Davis on which it, however, even whilst working on The Man with the Horn by Mike Stern replaced. Then he founded his own bands. He also recorded with Thad Jones / Mel Lewis , Rimona Francis , Ray Barretto , Hubert Laws , Tom Harrell , Steve Grossman , Terumasa Hino and Didier Lockwood .

Discographic notes

  • New York City (1982)
  • 2B Named Later (Cheetah Records, 1988)
  • Straight Ahead (Arabesque Records, 1994)
  • Space Age Blues (Hot Wire Records, 1998)
  • Trazz! (Birdland Records, 2003)
  • Manhattan Sessions Vol. 1 (ESC, 2010)
  • Blues for Trane (Cheetah Records, 2010)
  • Nothing's Gonna Be All Right (Birdland, 2014)

Fonts

literature

  • Mark Gilbert, "Barry Finnerty". Grove Jazz online.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jazz guitarist Barry Finnerty knows how to groove alone to make music
  2. ↑ Apparently Finnerty couldn't play a chord properly; he himself told a differentiated version of the conflicts in the recording studio. See George Cole The Last Miles. The Music of Miles Davis 1980-1991. P. 80f.
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online February 4, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Finnerty, Barry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Finnerty, Michael Barry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American fusion musician (guitar, keyboards)
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco