Courtney Pine: House of Legends – review

(Destin-E World) For this lively merengue, ska, mento and calypso project, Courtney Pine has returned to the soprano saxophone and picked a band steeped in Afro-Caribbean music – including the French/Martinique pianist Mario Canonge, the Trinidadian steel-pan player Annise Hadeed and Jazz Jamaica drummer Rod Youngs. Though a party mood prevails on Kingstonian Swing and the Sonny Rollins-like calypsos Liamuiga (Cook Up) and House of Hutch, Pine opens the album with a trilling soprano-sax balla...

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