the Nick Finzer Quintet at Blue Whale

L.A. music fans who like to say they "discovered" an artist, hit that JOIN button for this exciting evening at the blue whale on Sunday, January 4th when The Nick Finzer Quintet takes the stage at 9p.

Band leader Nick Finzer, a Juilliard Jazz grad, is more than a trombonist and composer of some of New York's hottest new Jazz: He's a career comet beginning that bright burn into the upper orbit of the Jazz scene.

A protegé of the great Wycliffe Gordon, Finzer's been a hugely in-demand side-man. You'll find him sitting in with both the traditional A-List groups like Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, or appearing in web videos and on the first North American and European tour last summer of the Internet supergroup Postmodern Jukebox, among others.. ...

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L.A. music fans who like to say they "discovered" an artist, hit that JOIN button for this exciting evening at the blue whale on Sunday, January 4th when The Nick Finzer Quintet takes the stage at 9p.

Band leader Nick Finzer, a Juilliard Jazz grad, is more than a trombonist and composer of some of New York's hottest new Jazz: He's a career comet beginning that bright burn into the upper orbit of the Jazz scene.

A protegé of the great Wycliffe Gordon, Finzer's been a hugely in-demand side-man. You'll find him sitting in with both the traditional A-List groups like Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, or appearing in web videos and on the first North American and European tour last summer of the Internet supergroup Postmodern Jukebox, among others..

His CD "Exposition" (Outside In, 2013) demonstrated one of the great new voices of the music, and his second, eagerly awaited album (Spring 2015 release), will confirm the buzz: Nick Finzer is going to be a major 21st century voice in Jazz.

Mike Cottone - Trumpet
Nick Finzer - Trombone
John Beasley - Piano
Mike Gurolla - Bass
Dan Schnelle - Drums

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