Scottish National Jazz Orchestra w. Courtney Pine “Revisting Coltrane”, Scottish tour March 2014.
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
The SNJO directed by Tommy Smith will undertake a short Scottish tour playing the music of John Coltrane with guest soloist Courtney Pine during March 2014. Details attached.
We have received the following pressrelease regarding the forthcoming tour;
PRESS RELEASE
The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra directed by Tommy Smith
proudly presents
Courtney Pine:Revisiting Coltrane
There are few names as synonymous with iconoclastic jazz composition as John Coltrane. Similarly, there are only a handful of British jazz musicians who can usefully be described as household names. One of them is Courtney Pine C.B.E, who has been at the centre of UK jazz for twenty-eight years as a leading saxophonist, an award-winning composer and performer and, notably, as a broadcaster.
Pine burst onto the jazz scene in 1986 with his debut album Journey to the Urge Within to instant acclaim and uncommon celebrity. The recording earned a rare silver disc for a jazz title and it established Courtney Pine as a leading figure. Since then, Pine has made thirteenmore albums including the bright reggae-informed Closer To Home, the Mercury Music Prize nominated Modern Jazz Stories and, more recently, House of Legends, the Jazzwise
album of the year in 2012.
In this forthcoming series of concerts with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra (SNJO),Courtney Pine will re-connect with the some of John Coltrane’s best-loved and most inspirational pieces. The programme offers specially commissioned arrangements of musicthat paint a well-rounded portrait of Coltrane. His lust for life is exemplified in Afro Blue,his tenderness shown on Naima and his searching nature revealed through Giant Steps. But
it is the deep spirituality in his music that endures most, and it’s represented here by A Love Supreme Parts 1 and 2, fifty years after the original recording of the four-part suite.
Coltrane’s star is as high as ever, and his soulful music has greater appeal across boundariesof tastes and preferences than ever before. Courtney Pine is a central figure in British jazz with a highly inclusive and influential outlook on music, culture and identity. Theversatility, ambition and audacity of the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra have been fully recognized in rave reviews for their brand new CD, American Adventure and last month’s
successful shows with the amazing Kurt Elling. Together, Courtney Pine and the SNJO areideally placed to curate and communicate the ideas of a musical visionary like Coltrane withall due respect, commitment, imagination and care.
TOUR DATES:
28th March 2014 ? Aberdeen Music Hall 01224 641 122 http://www.boxofficeaberdeen.com
29th March 2014 - Edinburgh Queen’s Hall 0131 668 2019 http://www.thequeenshall.net
30th March 2014 - Glasgow Royal Conservatoire 0141 332 5057 http://www.rcs.ac.uk