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Courtney Pine

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Year of Birth:1964

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Courtney Pine, (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. On his 2011 album, Europa, he plays almost exclusively bass clarinet.
Pine's parents were Jamaican immigrants, his father a carpenter and his mother a housing manager. As a child, Pine... more

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