Multi-instrumentalist Courtney Pine to appear at The Apex later this month

No musician more embodies the dramatic transformation in the British jazz scene over the past 20 years than Courtney Pine and he is appearing at The Apex later this month.

The ground-breaking, multi-instrumentalist has inspired a generation of exciting and innovative players who have broadened their styles to take jazz out to a wider audience.

Winner of numerous MOBOs and BBC Jazz Awards, Courtney is widely recognised as one of the UK’s leading jazz musicians. Some 30 plus years on (now with an OBE and CBE for services to music), he continues to break new ground with his string of highly acclaimed recordings, and he is regularly voted in the top 20 Black Britons polls.

For his gig at The Apex on Tuesday, October 26, Courtney has stripped everything right back and will play bass clarinet accompanied only by MOBO Award winning pianist, Zoe Rahman.

Described in The Observer newspaper as “one of the finest young pianists in Europe”, Zoë Rahman is one of the brightest stars on the contemporary jazz scene.

She has won the Perrier Young Jazz Musician of the Year Award, a MOBO Award (Best Jazz Act 2012) and her second album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize.