My sincere condolences to Ian’s Ohana. He was a true mensch and a true virtuoso on the xylophone. I will Miss his playing and his writing. Gods speed Ian, till we meet again.
I went to George Wingate High School with Ian Finkel who was 1 year older then me. He was great, period. He helped me and coached vocalist the late Victoria Missick. He lived here in Brooklyn, New York on Balfore Street near Empire Bvd. I also printed black manuscript for Ian on my printing press. If you happen to run across it I clled it Tresser Finkle brand. It was used on most of his music charts. He was truly thye best and could easily give Lionel Hampton a run. He was that great!
Hi Ian, You are such a gifted percussionist and bandleader! (A real mfr!) My great drummer brudda "Mark Leon" turned me onto you. All the Best Always, PG. Ps You are a virtuoso! All the Best Always to You, PG. 😎✌🙏🏻🥁🎶🎶🎶
My sincere condolences to Ian’s Ohana. He was a true mensch and a true virtuoso on the xylophone. I will
Miss his playing and his writing. Gods speed Ian, till we meet again.
I went to George Wingate High School with Ian Finkel who was 1 year older then me. He was great, period. He helped me and coached vocalist the late Victoria Missick. He lived here in Brooklyn, New York on Balfore Street near Empire Bvd. I also printed black manuscript for Ian on my printing press. If you happen to run across it I clled it Tresser Finkle brand. It was used on most of his music charts. He was truly thye best and could easily give Lionel Hampton a run. He was that great!
Fantastic! Thanks, Ian, for entertaining and inspiring so many of us!
This is wonderful example of Ian's xylophone artistry.
Thanks for posting this, Jon.
Glad to come to know him - only posthumously I'm afraid.
Also, there's no Wikipedia entry for this extraordinary artist :(
Hi Ian, You are such a gifted percussionist and bandleader! (A real mfr!) My great drummer brudda "Mark Leon" turned me onto you. All the Best Always, PG. Ps You are a virtuoso! All the Best Always to You, PG. 😎✌🙏🏻🥁🎶🎶🎶
Ian was really cool.
Great obituary in NY Times today (Nov 26, 2020)
Googled him because of the NY Times obituary. Holy moley this guy was good with the Xylophone.
From Gusikow - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Gusikov - to Finkel.