David E. Finck (born August 26, 1958) is an Americanjazz bassist. He plays bothbass guitar anddouble bass.

Finck was born inRochester, New York, while his father was attending graduate school at theUniversity of Rochester. Raised inPhiladelphia, he graduated fromCheltenham High School.^[1] He studied under Sam Goradetzer and Michael Shahan of thePhiladelphia Orchestra, and graduated fromEastman School of Music in 1980.^[2]

Finck played withWoody Herman in 1980 and 1981 and then moved toNew York City, where he played withJoe Williams,Annie Ross,Mel Lewis,Al Cohn,Ernestine Anderson,Rosemary Clooney,Tom Harrell,Jerry Dodgion,Phil Woods,Clark Terry, andAl Grey in the 1980s. He worked withPaquito D'Rivera andSteve Kuhn in the 1990s, as well asFreddie Hubbard,Makoto Ozone, andEddie Daniels. Finck also featured accompanyingAndré Previn on the 1998Deutsche Grammophon album releaseWe Got Rhythm: A Gershwin Songbook.

Finck's debut release as a leader,Future Day, was released in 2008 on Soundbrush Records. The album featuresJoe Locke,Tom Ranier, andJoe LaBarbera, as well as guest appearances fromJeremy Pelt andBob Sheppard.^[3]

• Future Day (Soundbrush, 2008)
• Low Standards (Soundbrush, 2017)
• Bassically Jazz (Primary Wave Music, 2019)
• Over the Rainbow (Macharso Records, 2019)
• Bassic Instinct (Primary Wave Music, 2021)
• A Beautiful Friendship (Burton Avenue Music, 2023)

WithSteve Kuhn

• Looking Back (Concord, 1990)
• Years Later (Concord, 1992)
• Remembering Tomorrow (ECM, 1995)
• Dedication (Reservoir, 1997)
• Countdown (Reservoir, 1998)
• The Best Things (Reservoir, 1999)
• Promises Kept (ECM, 2000)
• Mostly Coltrane (ECM, 2008)

WithTisziji Munoz

• Incomprehensibly Gone (Anami Music, 2010)
• Beauty As Beauty (Anami Music, 2013)
• Realization of Paradox: Melting the Mind of Logic (Anami Music, 2014)
• Songs of Soundlessness (Anami Music, 2015)
• Atoms of Supersoul (Anami Music, 2016)
• Scream of Ensoundment (Anami Music, 2017)

WithPaquito D'Rivera

• Tico! Tico! (Chesky Records, 1989)
• Havana Cafe (Chesky Records, 1992)

WithAndré Previn

• We Got Rhythm: A Gershwin Songbook (Deutsche Grammophon, 1998)
• We Got It Good and That Ain't Bad: An Ellington Songbook (Deutsche Grammophon, 1999)
• Live at the Jazz Standard (Decca, 2001)

With André Previn andSylvia McNair

• Sure Thing: The Jerome Kern Songbook (Philips, 1996)
• Come Rain or Shine: The Harold Arlen Songbook (Philips, 1996)
• Thrivin' With Marian Petrescu (Résonance, 2010)

With others

• Jon Benjamin,Well, I Should Have...* (Sub Pop, 2015)
• Badi Assad,Echoes of Brazil (Chesky Records, 1997)
• Mark Murphy,Lucky to Be Me (HighNote Records, 2002)

• American jazz double-bassists
• American male double-bassists
• American jazz bass guitarists
• 1958 births
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• Musicians from Rochester, New York
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• 20th-century American bass guitarists
• 21st-century American double-bassists
• 20th-century American male musicians
• 21st-century American male musicians
• American male jazz musicians
• Jazz musicians from New York (state)

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