James Finn Trio

James Finn Trio: Plaza De Toros

by Dan McClenaghan
May 5, 2005

Listening to Plaza De Toros, you wonder what James Finn would have done in life if the saxophone hadn't been invented. The intrument seems made for him--full of passion and rage and tenderness, beauty and anguish, growls and gruff whispers and torrid wails... You just get the feeling the man's soul is coming out of his horn here.

While living in the mountains near Woodstock, New York, Finn took his saxophone out into a meadow and played with ...