Courtney Pine: Europa – review

(Destin-E Records)Courtney Pine's Europa project, currently on tour, is a typically ambitious musical travelogue in which he and a strong lineup (including violinist Omar Puente, clarinetist Shabaka Hutchings and pianist Zoe Rahman) apply their jazz sensibilities to European folk idioms, stretching from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean and beyond. Pine plays bass clarinet throughout, splicing it with Alec Dankworth's bowed bass on the opening The Tale of Romulus and Remus, releasing spine-tingli...

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