Courtney Pine - Destiny's Song And The Image Of Pursuance (1988)

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Title: Destiny's Song And The Image Of Pursuance
Year Of Release: 1988
Label: Island Records[258827]
Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 54:17
Total Size: 335 MB(+3%) | 129 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

01 - Beyond the thought of my last reckoning
02 - In pursuance
03 - The vision
04 - Guardian of the flame
05 - Round midnight
06 - Sacrifice
07 - Prismic omnipotence
08 - Alone
09 - A raggamuffin's tale
10 - Mark of time
Courtney Pine - Destiny's Song And The Image Of Pursuance (1988)

personnel :

Gary Crosby - Double Bass
Mark Mondesir - Drums
Joe Bashorun - Piano
Courtney Pine - Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone

Courtney Pine's second album stays very much within the Marsalis-imposed boundaries of post-Miles post-bop; indeed, a Marsalis brother, Delfeayo, is the producer, and the album's subtitle uses the patented kind of wordplay that the New Orleans dynasty indulges in. As before, Pine's guiding star is John Coltrane, of whom he had become a fervent and skillful acolyte, tossing off endless streams of heated playing on tenor and soprano inside and outside. Pine also uses alternating expert teams of English acoustic jazz specialists -- Julian Joseph or Joe Bashorun on piano, Paul Hunt or Gary Crosby on bass, and Mark Mondesir on drums -- as backup. There are some really good Pine compositions here; "Sacrifice" sounds as if it could have made it as a standard in mainstream and/or electric jazz. Although the novelty of a young black Englishman playing Afro-American acoustic jazz has long since worn off, much of this CD repays repeated latter-day listening. ~ Richard S. Ginell