(Post-Bop) [LP] [24/192] Courtney Pine - Destiny's Song + The Image of Pursuance - 1988, FLAC (tracks)

LINEAGE: Record cleaned on Music Hall WCS-3 machine with custom fluid; vinyl - Antilles New Directions – 90697-1 with DMM mastering by Ted Jensen; Pro-Ject RM-5SE with Audio Tecnica Signet TK7E cartridge; Pro-Ject Tube Box S2 preamp with Philips NOS ECC83 tubes powered by Accu-box battery PSU; Audioquest Black Mamba and Pangea Premier interconnect cables; RME Babyface Pro interface ; Adobe Audition at 32-bit float 192khz; clicks and pops removed manually with Adobe Audition 3.0, except for track A5 which used ClickRepair with output monitored manually and further cleaning up in Audition; resampled, dithered, converted to FLAC using iZotope RX Advanced. Tags done with Foobar 2000 and Tag and Rename.

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Analyzed: Courtney Pine / Destiny's Song
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR14 0.00 dB -18.33 dB 7:49 01-Beyond the Thought of My Last Reckoning
DR14 -1.85 dB -20.61 dB 6:52 02-In Pursuance
DR12 -1.12 dB -19.65 dB 3:54 03-The Vision
DR14 -2.48 dB -21.46 dB 2:33 04-Guardian of the Flame
DR13 -6.89 dB -23.81 dB 3:29 05-Round Midnight
DR13 -0.52 dB -18.67 dB 5:56 06-Sacrifice
DR14 -1.78 dB -20.77 dB 6:20 07-Prismic Omnipotence
DR14 -2.12 dB -22.71 dB 5:34 08-Alone
DR14 -2.48 dB -21.44 dB 7:47 09-A Raggamuffin's Tale
DR13 -4.34 dB -20.83 dB 4:05 10-Mark of Time
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR14
Samplerate: 192000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 4959 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Courtney Pine's second album stays very much within the Marsalis-imposed boundaries of post-Miles post-bop; indeed, a Marsalis brother, Delfeayo, is the producer, and the album's subtitle uses the patented kind of wordplay that the New Orleans dynasty indulges in. As before, Pine's guiding star is John Coltrane, of whom he had become a fervent and skillful acolyte, tossing off endless streams of heated playing on tenor and soprano inside and outside. Pine also uses alternating expert teams of English acoustic jazz specialists -- Julian Joseph or Joe Bashorun on piano, Paul Hunt or Gary Crosby on bass, and Mark Mondesir on drums -- as backup. There are some really good Pine compositions here; "Sacrifice" sounds as if it could have made it as a standard in mainstream and/or electric jazz. Although the novelty of a young black Englishman playing Afro-American acoustic jazz has long since worn off, much of this CD repays repeated latter-day listening.

Courtney Pine - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Joe Bashorun - piano
Gary Crosby - double bass
Mark Mondesir - drums
Recorded at Angel Studios, London on July 29 - August 1, 1987.