Nick Finzer

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Nick Finzer (born May 22, 1988 in Rochester (New York) ) is an American jazz musician ( trombone , composition ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Finzer was born into a musical family; his mother Sherry Finzer is a classical flautist. With the band in high school, he entered the competition Essentially Ellington of Jazz in Lincoln Center on. Finzer eventually studied at the Eastman School of Music ; He earned his Masters in the jazz program at the Juilliard School , where Steve Turre was his mentor. In 2010 he became a finalist at the Carl Fontana Jazz Trombone Competition of the International Trombone Association, and in 2011 he received the Eastern Trombone award at the National Jazz Trombone Competition . The first recordings were made in 2013 with Lucas Pino No Net Nonet , as well as with Bob Stewart ( Connections - Mind the Gap ) and the Eyal Vilner Big Band.

Under the mentorship of Wycliffe Gordon , he also worked on composition. After his debut album Exposition (Outside in Music, 2013), two of which won the ASCAP Herb Alpert Award , Finzer recorded The Chase for Origin Records in 2014 with Lucas Pino, Alex Wintz, Glenn Zaleski , Dave Baron and Jimmy MacBride . Finzer has appeared in various jazz clubs and venues in the course of his career, including a. also with Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox , Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra , Frank Wess , Lew Tabackin , Terell Stafford , Lewis Nash and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ( Ghost Band ), Walt Weiskopf , John Clayton , Slide Hampton , Frank Kimbrough , Carl Allen , Ray Drummond and Steve Turre. In the field of jazz he was involved in eleven recording sessions between 2013 and 2018. a. also with the Anat Cohen Tentet ( Triple Helix , 2019). At the Down Beat Critics Poll 2020 he was the winner as a rising star in the trombone category.

Discographic notes

  • Hear & Now (Outside in Music, 2016)
  • No Arrival (Posi-Tone, 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information in All About Jazz
  2. ↑ Nick Finzer, Trombone. Smalls, August 1, 2019, accessed August 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 6, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Finzer, Nick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (trombone)
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester (New York)