Courtney Pine

Courtney Pine
Born: Mar 18, 1964 in London, England
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Genre: Jazz
Styles: Soul-Jazz, Post-Bop, Funk, World Fusion, African Jazz
Biography: Courtney Pine is perhaps the most enigmatic of late 20th century British jazzmen; he has consistently fascinated and frustrated critics with a restless and adventurous musical vision that has brought world music, pop, reggae, electronica, funk, and soul to sit in with the jazz tradition on his recordings. ...Read full biography
Devotion
Released: 2004
Label: Telarc
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Devotion is Courtney Pine's ninth album and his first to be released on American shores since 1999. Those familiar with Pine's restlessly adventurous, knife-edge walk between the jazz explorations of ...Read full review
Underground
Released: 1997
Label: Verve Records
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The first thing that becomes clear on Courtney Pine's Underground is that the hip-hop-jazz hybrids of the 1990s (such as Digable Planets, A Tribe Called Quest, US3, or even the Dream Warriors) missed their ...Read full review
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