Courtney Pine

saxophones, flute, bass clarinet, EWI · 1964 · London

British saxophonist, principal founder in 1985 of the Jazz Warriors, a big band of Black British musicians. He was made OBE in 2000, then CBE in 2009 for services to jazz.

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Styles

• British jazz
• Neoclassicism, Young Lions

Landmark tracks

• Children of the Ghetto (1986)

Sources

• Source

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