COURTNEY PINE
Post Bop / World Fusion / Post-Fusion Contemporary / Acid Jazz / RnB / Pop/Art Song/Folk / Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop / Eclectic Fusion • United Kingdom
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While classified as a jazz musician, Courtney Pine melds a wide variety of influences into his music. The saxophonist and clarinetist has deftly incorporated reggae, electronica, hip-hop, funk and Eastern sounds into his boundary-defying repertoire, working alongside luminaries in each genre. Pine began performing professionally as a teenager, forming the hard-bop outfit Dwarf Steps. From there he toured and recorded with reggae artists General Saint and Clint Eastwood. Pine told Down Beat that his nontraditional, eclectic approach was largely influenced by early exposure to renegade saxophonist Sonny Rollins. "If I'd heard Charlie Parker first, I might have felt alienated," he said. "But Sonny Rollins was playing something I could understand: calypso! He was like my uncle! That sucked me into the music completely!" With Rollins and legendary saxophonist John Coltrane as influences, Pine began participating in jazz workshops with drummer John Stevens, and soon joined the jazz
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Another Story
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop
1998
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Devotion
Post-Fusion Contemporary
2003
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Europa
Post Bop
2011
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