Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 2001, and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My castaway this week is a jazz musician. He was born in Paddington in 1964 where he shared one room with his mother, father, baby sister, and the music, which first on the radiogram and later at school became an inseparable part of his life.

A well-behaved boy who went with his parents to church every Sunday, he chose jazz as his method of rebellion.

By the mid-80s he'd established a band, the... chose jazz of rebellion.

The Jazz Warriors, and then came fame in the

form of his hugely successful first album,

Journey to the Urge Within.

It sold 100,000 copies in weeks and its

Creator never looked back. Always innovating but always keeping close to people too.

He's the man who for many has made British jazz credible.

Life reflects music and music reflects life, he says,

and this is what should be happening in jazz.

He is Courtney Pine.

First thing, Courtney, great name, great Monica,

Courtney Pine. That must have helped you actually over the years. It was very difficult

name at school. I wanted to change my name to John, Simon, Paul. Anything which was

easier to say, there was no Courtney's in school. It was such a strange name. In America,

it's a girl's name. So for me I was very annoyed with the name

Courtney Pines. So that attracted attention to it and then you chose the saxophone

which you know it's a pretty macho instrument it's it's probably the most

noticeable in the jazz lineup, isn't it?

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