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Barry Finnerty

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Born

in San Francisco, The United States

Website

http:/www.barryfinnerty.com

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Music, Memoir, Humor and Comedy

Influences

Hunter S. Thompson, William Burroughs, Henry Miller

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February 2017

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Barry Finnerty is an internationally known guitarist, having played with such jazz luminaries as Miles Davis (The Man With The Horn), the Crusaders (Street Life) and the Brecker Bros. (Heavy Metal Bebop). He is also the author of two acclaimed "Serious Jazz" educational books. He now lives in Oakland, California with his wife Clarita and several dogs. "START" is his first literary work. ...more

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Starting "START" (Warning! Contains: Drugs! Sex! Jazz! Reality!)

In New York City in the mid-1990's, internationally known guitar player Barry Finnerty found himself in a very bad place. His glory days of the 70's and 80's, when he was recording with Miles Davis, flying first class around the world with the Crusaders, making legendary records such as "Heavy Metal Bebop" with the Brecker Bros, banging beautiful groupies and partying non-stop - all of that is a d Read more of this blog post »

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Published on February 22, 2017 10:22 • Tags: barry-finnerty, booze, brecker-bros, cocaine, crusaders, donald-trump, drugs, humor, hunter-s-thompson, ivana-trump, jazz, miles-davis, new-york-city, satire, sex, struggling-artist

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	The Serious Jazz Book II 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	"Start": Warning! Contains: Sex! Drugs! Jazz! Reality! it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Start: Warning! Contains: Sex! Drugs! Jazz! Reality! 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Serious Jazz Practice Book 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Serious Jazz Practice Book, (plus CD) [Paperback] by Barry Finnerty 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars