Jazz composer and multi-instrumentalist Matt Finley can transcribe, compose and/or arrange jazz enhancements
to studio recordings of your songs, and add some great jazz horn solos, hooks and background lines to your music.
- dba Kingsmill Music, a jazz music publishing company listed with BMI.
- BMI composer, arranger, and award-winning songwriter.
- Studied composition under Edgar Curtis, Founding Director of the Albany Symphony Orchestra.
- Permanent New York State music teaching certification, and Member, Local 238-291 American Federation of Musicians.
- Professional jazz musician for 46 years.
- Multi-instrumentalist (flugelhorn, trumpet, soprano sax, flute, alto flute, vibes and a few others).
- Experienced studio sideman.
- Leader of Rio JAZZ, the Hudson Valley's premier Brazilian jazz concert band, since 1988.
- Sideman and arranger for Denise Jordan Finley's recent CD, Hauntress and her newest CD, Solstice.
- Sideman jazz soloist for recent CDs by Sharon Klein and Barbara Martin.
- Studio software includes SONAR, Adobe Audition, Encore, Band-in-a-Box, and Ozone.
- Studio hardware includes a complete setup for composing, arranging and single-instrument recording.
- "Brazilian Wish" jazz CD at www.cdbaby.com/cd/mattfinley
- If you have some great music that needs the jazz touch, let's talk. If I'm not right for your job, I know many others who might be.
My CD, Brazilian Wish, features original jazz sambas and bossa novas,
played by some of the best musicians in the world. It's Rio JAZZ in a box!
You can go directly to my CD baby page to preview and purchase the CD:
