{"id":3898,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/courtney-pine-devotion\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"courtney-pine-devotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3898","title":{"rendered":"Courtney Pine &#8211; Devotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/devotion_.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" alt=\"Devotion\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"0\"\/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>Devotion<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:18px\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  <strong>Courtney Pine  <\/strong><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\">(Telarc &#8211; 2004) <br \/> by Ray Redmond<\/p>\n<p><\/font>  <font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">  Devotion took me by surprise. I&#8217;ve never been a big Courtney Pine fan, so when I got this assignment I put the CD on with some temerity&#8230; boy did THAT go away quickly. This guy is talented&#8230; <i>U.K.<\/i> is very <i>Crusaders <\/i>horns inspired, <i>Osibisa<\/i> a bit of a cacophony on parade. <i>Bless The Weather<\/i> is a pretty, soulful track featuring vocalist <b>David McAlmont<\/b>. The tune tells a story, has some good background placement and great musicianship.<\/p>\n<p><i>When The World Turns Blue<\/i>, with vocalist <b>Carleen Anderson<\/b> is the other GREAT track on this release. Very up tempo, as is Pine&#8217;s bent, Carleen keeps the pace and carries the day. <i>Sister Soul<\/i> has a bit of a 70&#8217;s retro feel, I think that&#8217;s why I liked it, and the title tune <i>Devotion<\/i> is very old school. The rest of the CD is veeeery Courtney Pine and will appeal to his fans.        <cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"><?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/cfinclude><\/font><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devotion Courtney Pine (Telarc &#8211; 2004) by Ray Redmond Devotion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}