EDUCATION | EXHIBITIONS: ONE LP@DOCUMENTING JAZZ_2020: Denys Baptiste: Musician

{quote}Ok, I've thought long and hard about this and I thought to myself actually it would be Courtney Pine's 'Journey to the Urge Within', which was his first album that came out when I was at school. I'd been dabbling with a little bit of jazz at the time, I hadn't really had any idea about being a jazz musician and I think on hearing that album and hearing him playing that music live was the thing that kind of inspired me.  The thought 'You know actually I could do that too'.  So it holds a very special place in my heart as an album that kind of made me make the difference between deciding to be an engineer or being a musician.{quote}Denys Baptiste: The Spa Scarborough, 26th September 2015Courtney Pine: Journey To The Urge Within released 1986Denys Baptiste
Denys Baptiste: Musician, Courtney Pine: Journey To The Urge Within

 

"Ok, I've thought long and hard about this and I thought to myself actually it would be Courtney Pine's 'Journey to the Urge Within', which was his first album that came out when I was at school.  

I'd been dabbling with a little bit of jazz at the time, I hadn't really had any idea about being a jazz musician and I think on hearing that album and hearing him playing that music live was the thing that kind of inspired me.  The thought 'You know actually I could do that too'.  So it holds a very special place in my heart as an album that kind of made me make the difference between deciding to be an engineer or being a musician." 

 

Denys Baptiste: The Spa Scarborough, 26th September 2015 

Courtney Pine: Journey To The Urge Within released 1986 

Denys Baptiste