Jazz Articles about Dan Finn

About Dan Finn

Album Review

Neon, pianist-composer--arranger Arina Fujiwara's luminous debut release, ends on an unexpected note, a solo take on Scott Joplin's “Maple Leaf Rag" (1899), his most popular and enduring tune. It complements her program of four excellent originals and an inspired reconception of “Hotaru Koi," a Japanese children's song. Fujiwara's “Maple Leaf Rag" flows out of Joplin's classic ragtime style but is full of her own playful virtuosity. Beginning out of time, she moves freely from one rhythmic-harmonic eddy to the next, ...

Album Review

Zach Green: Chatterbox

Read "Chatterbox" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 6, 2023

On Chatterbox, young Ohio-born, New York-based composer/arranger Zach Green has written most of the music, arranged all of it, and chosen a well-modulated sextet to bring it to life. The term “young" certainly applies to Green, a graduate of Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music who also sings and plays guitar and percussion (but not here) and is yet several years shy of his thirtieth birthday--which hasn't stopped him from forming an eleven-piece ensemble, Zach Green's Elevention, or co-founding the ...