REVIEWS JUST IN...
"This could well be the best Courtney
Pine album in the story so far"
JAZZWISE NOV 2005: FOUR STARS
"COURTNEY PINES RESISTANCE WHICH FINDS
THE GREAT MAN ADDING 60'S SOUL JAZZ, 70'S FUNK AND GENTLE ROCK INFLUENCES
TO HIS TRADEMARK JAZZ 'N' BEATS FORMULA. IT HAS SOME GREAT MOMENTS,
'RIGHT ON' IS THE FUNKIEST THING
HE'S RECORDED IN YEARS"
'TIME OUT' NOV 2005
REVIEWS of DEVOTION
JOYFUL ECLECTICISM
BY BRITISH JAZZ SAX STAR. DEVOTION TOUCHES ALL PINE'S FAVOURITE BASES:
AFRICAN MUSIC, JAZZ FUNK, DUB, SOUL AND DRUM N BASS WITH AN UNFALTERING
MUSICALITY AND SENSE OF FUN
Q Magazine - 4 stars
- December 2003
I WON’T HEAR A WORD SAID ABOUT COURTNEY
PINE, OK? NO ONE HAS CARRIED THE JAZZ TORCH LIKE HE HAS, NO ONE HAS
PUSHED THE BOUNDARIES AND INCORPORATED THE OLD AND NEW WITH SUCH SENSITIVITY.
DEVOTION KICKS WITH A RIGHT STARSKY AND HUTCH FUNK-OUT AND NEVER LETS
GO.
The Daily Express (National) –
3rd October 2003
THIS IS AN ALBUM CRAMMED
WITH COLOUR AND VARIETY, ON WHICH PINE'S DISTINCT FLAVA IS UNMISSABLE
THROUGHOUT.
Woman2Woman
- November 2003
PINE MAINTAINS HIS
PIVOTAL AND INSPIRATIONAL ROLE AND THE FOREFRONT OF BRITISH JAZZ.
Blues and Soul – 29th September
2003
THE UK’S MOST IMPORTANT JAZZ INSTRUMENTALIST.
Observer Music Montly (National) –
21st September 2003
COURTNEY PINE HAS A FANTASTIC SQUEAKY
CLEAN TECHNIQUE – BUT HE NEVER LETS IT BLOW THE SPIRIT OF THE
MUSIC AWAY. UNMISTAKABLY BLACK AND BRITISH: CATCHY AND FEELGOOD.
The Guardian – 10th October 2003
HIS MOST ACCESSIBLE ALBUM YET, WITH AN ARRAY
OF VOCALISTS SINGING OVER A VAGUELY EASTERN VIBE. BEST OF ALL IS DAVID
MCALMONT- GRACED ‘BLESS THE WEATHER’ AND THE INTOXICATING
ARABIAN SOUND OF TRANSLUSENCE
Red – 10th October 2003
IF YOU DESIRE A SNAPSHOT OF BRITAINS YOUTH CULTURE
IN ITS PARTY BEST, PINE WEIDLS A NIFTY INSTAMATIC
The Sunday Times/Culture – 12th
October 2003
HIS TENOR WORK ON ‘UK’ IS SUPERBLY
EXCITING, THE SOPRANO CHARGE THROUGH ‘SOUL SISTER’ IS
COLTRANE IN EXCELSIS AND THE CHASE CHORUS BETWEEN SAX AND SITAR ON
‘TRANSULSANCE’ IS SHEER HIGH SPIRITED FUN’ . THE
MOST UNCOMPLICATED, ENJOYABLE SET HE’S EVER DONE.
Jazz Review – 1st October 2003
