Courtney Pine is an English multi-instrumentalist jazz musician (primarily for his saxophone playing), who broke into the UK Top 40 with his debut album (on Island Records) called Journey to the Urge ...

In the 1980s, as a co-founder of the band Jazz Warriors and with his debut album Journey To The Urge Within (Island, 1986), reed player Courtney Pine inspired a generation young black British ...

The Tale of Stephen Lawrence; Kingstonian Swing; Liamuiga (Cook up); Samuel Sharpe; Ca C’est Bon Ca; Claudia Jones; Song of the Maroons; House of Hutch; From the Father to the Son: Ma-Di-Ba; Tico Tico ...

While his previous album Europa focused on the woody timbre of the bass clarinet, his fifteenth studio album features the plangent tones of the soprano sax exclusively, heard at the outset in a ...

In one of several firsts, Europa hears him blowing up a storm through the delightfully rich, woody timbres of the bass clarinet, an instrument he fell in love with when he heard Eric Dolphy play on ...