Jazz Warriors Afropeans Album Launch

Friday 2nd May - Saturday 3rd May
£20.00 - £36.00

Information on Jazz Warriors Afropeans Album Launch

Courtney Pine heads up a new Warrior charge with some of the UK's most exciting jazz musicians performing tracks from his forthcoming album.
“Staggeringly Powerful” ..The Times


Courtney Pine is considered the key UK jazz musician of his generation. It all began when, as a young saxophonist backing many of the travelling reggae stars, he noticed he was not the only hornsman with a deep desire to play jazz. In 1984, he founded The Abibi Jazz Arts with a view to harnessing the collective strength among African-Caribbean jazz artists. A big band, christened The Jazz Warriors by Courtney's wife, was created and, after a very short time, it began to play its own music. The band grew in size and strength - gaining positive reactions from both audience and media - and the likes of Steve Williamson, Mamadi Kamara, Claude Deppa, Cheryl Alleyne and others contributed to its vibrancy. The Jazz Warriors' main aim was to unite different generations of musicians, and Courtney always intended up and coming players to have a place in the band; when interference from some members meant this was questioned, the band broke up under somewhat acrimonious circumstances with only one album, Out of Many One People (released in 1987 on Island Records), under its belt.

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