Sessions @ The Vinyl Society is a new weekly series in Detroit’s Paradise Valley, featuring metro-Detroit’s finest jazz musicians. Each Wednesday session features two showtimes, at 8:00 and 9:45 p.m. — and there’s never a cover!

Ian Finkelstein (AKA Ian Fink) is a pianist, producer, composer, and educator. A student of Detroit jazz luminaries such as Marcus Belgrave, Geri Allen, and Rodney Whitaker, he has been performing professionally since the age of 14 when he was a member of Detroit’s Civic Jazz Orchestra.

He has since performed with artists such as Benny Golson, Marcus Belgrave, Esperanza Spalding, Terri Lyne Carrington, Kassa Overall, Common, Earl Sweatshirt, and Karriem Riggins.

He is equally active in the city’s house and techno community, and releases his own solo work on Freak Press, a label he founded in 2017.

His body of work reflects a restlessness of genre: projects include solo jazz piano, house, techno, ambient music, and beyond. Ian is a 2024 Kresge Artist Fellow, as well as a recipient of a Spirit of Detroit Award from the City of Detroit in 2024.