COURTNEY PINE Vinilo y CD

Review: English saxophonist Courtney Pine's debut album Journey to the Urge Within very much announced his arrival back in 1986 on the Verve label. It was largely recorded at Angel Studios, Islington, London and in something of a first for a British jazz album at that time it managed to reach #39 in the UK Albums Chart eventually going on and earning a silver disc for selling over 250,000 copies. The tenor sax man was just 22 when he recorded the album alongside some other promising Black English jazz musicians of the day in singer Cleveland Watkiss, vibraphonist Orphy Robinson and keys player Julian Joseph.