Recording at Power Station at Berklee NYC At a time when many recordings are assembled remotely, I still value the experience of musicians playing together in the same room. Several of my projects have been recorded at Power Station at Berklee NYC, a studio whose...
A Musical Conversation That Continues John Finbury’s Brazilian compositions don’t imitate; they participate. From his first album of Brazilian jazz originals in 2015 to his most recent work with Bruna Black, Finbury has approached Brazilian music not as an outsider...
Emilio D. Miler: A Creative Partner Every composer who records regularly depends on collaborators who help bring the music fully to life in the studio. For me, that collaborator has been Emilio D. Miler. Emilio is a multi Grammy–winning producer whose musical...
Music That Travels From the early Brazilian ballads of Imaginário to the French-accented flair of “Boulevard,” John Finbury’s catalog lives in more than one language. His songs have been performed in Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French — not as translations, but...
Not Just Rhythm, But Language In John Finbury’s music, percussion is rarely about flash. It’s about voice, feel, and conversation. No one embodies this more clearly than Rogerio Boccato — the Brazilian percussionist whose work spans multiple Finbury albums, offering...
