Courtney Pine - To The Eyes Of Creation (1992)

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Artist: Courtney Pine
Title: To The Eyes Of Creation
Year Of Release: 1992
Label: 4th & Broadway [162-444 054-2]
Genre: Jazz, Post Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 56:47
Total Size: 369 MB(+3%) | 134 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

1 The healing song 04:58
2 Zaire 00:43
3 Country dance 08:06
4 Psalm 04:08
5 Eastern standard time 04:44
6 X-caliber 01:45
7 The mediation of contemplation 03:48
8 Life goes around 04:18
9 The Ark of Mark 01:34
10 Children hold on 04:25
11 Cleopatra 's needle 06:59
12 Redemption song 03:44
13 The holy grail 07:29

Courtney Pine - To The Eyes Of Creation (1992)

personnel :

Courtney Pine - Tenor Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Keyboards, Tamboura, Alto Flute and Bells
Brian Abrahams - Drums
Wayne Batchelor - Double Bass
Gary Crosby - Double Bass
Thomas Dyani-Akuru - Percussion
Louis Farrakhan - Voices
Julian Joseph - Piano, Organ (Hammond), Wavestation
Mamdi Kamara - Conga, Cowbell, Wood Block
Peter Lewinson - Drums
Steve Lewinson - Bass
Thebe Lipere - Bata, Talking Drum
Mark Mondesir - Drums
Bheki Mseleku - Piano
Linda Muriel - Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Vocal Arrangement
Mica Paris - Vocals
Cameron Pierre - Guitar
Tony Remi - Guitar
Juliet Roberts - Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
Dennis Rollins - Trombone
Frank Tontoh - Drums, Tambourine
Keith Waite - Flute (Wood), Shaker
Cleveland Watkiss - Vocals

It certainly seems as if all of Courtney Pine's previous albums were leading up to this one, (check out his liner note, which leaves no doubt). Here, he comes up with a grandly eclectic excursion into just about everything that has interested him in the past. Sometimes the metamorphoses take place within an individual track; for example, there is a "Country Dance" that sails forth in a folk-like manner until pianist Julian Joseph sends it into straight-ahead post-bop and Pine (on tenor sax) whizzes it like a madman onto Coltrane's turf. There are whiffs of Latinized jazz, jazz-lite to a rock rhythm, an African vocal interlude, pure Jamaican ska grooving on "Eastern Standard Time," a venture into India ("The Meditation of Contemplation" -- ooh, what a giveaway title), conventional R&B balladeering by singers Juliet Roberts and Linda Muriel, a drum solo piece for Mark Mondesir, more Coltrane tributes, even a respectful, straightforward rendition of Bob Marley's "Redemption Song." The changes of pace, sound and style are dizzying, and they don't come together as a whole; the disc sounds more like an anthology than a single project. Pine displays a lot of talent and a lot of curiosity but not a whole lot of organizing sense or memorable insight here.~Richard S. Ginell

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