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Courtney Pine, CBE (born 18 March 1964), is a British jazz musician, who was the principal founder in the 1980s of the black British band the Jazz Warriors. Although known primarily for his saxophone playing, Pine is a multi-instrumentalist, also playing the flute, clarinet, bass clarinet and keyboards.
NEW FOR 2022. – COURTNEY PINE PRESENTS SPIRITUALITY featuring Zoe Rahman – New tour dates announced and album release Autumn 2022.
In 1986 a 22 year old Courtney Pine appeared on the front cover of the iconic British music publication NME, he is the only Black British jazz artist to do so – the last quote in a two page interview read “You know I’m doing this for a reason” – some 30 years later he still is….
Dec 17, 2022 · Courtney Pine: ‘The search for the perfect melody is more important than celebrity’ The British jazz musician on harmony, heritage and being ‘a cat guy’ © Lauren Crow
Apr 21, 2022 · Courtney Pine interview: “Even this Covid thing cannot stop us musicians trying to create and represent who we are as human beings”. The legendary British saxophonist Courtney Pine looks back on a career packed with countless musical and personal milestones. By the mid-1980s, there was a buzz about British jazz.
Oct 28, 2021 · Courtney Pine is one of the most celebrated UK jazz musicians of all time. His glittering career — which spans three decades — has seen him awarded with both an OBE and CBE for services to music.
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Courtney Pine became one of the key standard-bearers of British jazz in the ‘80s, and, more specifically, the emblem of a new generation of London-based black players of West Indian origin who opted to play acoustic bebop rather than electric fusion.
