Over recent years, this young flautist/saxophonist/producer has been successfully embracing interactions working in the worlds of club music in the West London Broken Beat scene, jazz, classical and various world musics. Finn's 2006 release Su-Ling on Babel demonstrates how he has matured as a jazz composer and musician, soaking up the experience he has gained from a range of musical cultures, and honing the complexity of these forms into an accessible acoustic jazz format. A keen interest in ethnomusicology, specifically centred on latin and African music (The Suling of the title refers to a flute used in Javanese music) also permeates the grooves. Finn's quintet brings together kindred spirits with similar contemporary popular sub-cultural, improvisation and global music influences: they are the members of the eclectic band Jade Fox: keyboard/pianist Nick Ramm, guitarist David Okumu, bassist Tom Herbert and drummer Tom Skinner.

Albums of the year 2007: no.6 in Jazzwise
BBC Jazz Awards: Best line-up
Album of the year BBC Radio 1: Gilles Peterson Worldwide