Tom Green
Tom Green
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British jazz was formed through the recordings and performances of US visitors to the UK. From the late 1940s British "modern jazz", significantly influenced by American bebop, began to emerge, led by John Dankworth and Ronnie Scott, while Humphrey Lyttelton others played traditional jazz. From the 1960s British jazz took on more influences, including blues and world music. The best UK jazz musicians have gained international reputations, even though British jazz has remained a minority interest.
Courtney Pine, CBE was born in London in 1964 and the principal founder in the 1980s of the black British jazz band Jazz Warriors. Although known primarily for his saxophone playing, Pine is a multi-instrumentalist, also playing the flute, clarinet, bass clarinet and keyboards. Pine began his music career playing reggae, touring in 1981 with Clint Eastwood & General Saint, before his debut album Journey to the Urge Within in 1986. The Jazz Warriors recorded two albums under Pine's leadership: Out of Many, O
Born in 1978 in London, Soweto Kinch began playing saxophone at the age of nine after learning the clarinet. As a child he moved to Birmingham where he met Wynton Marsalis and became passionate about jazz, first concentrating on piano and later in his teens switching to alto saxophone as his main instrument. Kinch participated in Tomorrow's Warriors, a music education and artist development organisation co-founded in 1991 by Janine Irons and Gary Crosby and played with Crosby's Jazz Jamaica All Stars collec
Tom Green
Tom Green