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Extended Analysis

Jazz Warriors: Afropeans

Read "Jazz Warriors: Afropeans" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Jazz Warriors Afropeans Destin-E Records 2008

It is probably no coincidence that saxophonist Courtney Pine resurrected the name Jazz Warriors for the fifteen musicians assembled to perform Afropeans, a work commissioned by the Arts Council of England to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act (though not slavery itself), and performed at the Barbican, London in July, 2007.

The intention of Pine's short-lived Jazz Warriors in the ...

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Album Review

Jazz Warriors: Afropeans

Read "Afropeans" reviewed by Chris May


A live recording made at London's Barbican concert hall in October, 2007, Afropeans commemorated two anniversaries. The first, for which reed player/composer Courtney Pine had been commissioned to assemble the music and the band, was the 200th anniversary of Britain's abolition of the slave trade. The second, coincidentally but with a fine synchronicity, was the 20th anniversary of the pioneering London-based band the Jazz Warriors' only album, Out Of Many, One People (Island, 1987).

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