Courtney Pine: Out of the Ghetto - A Modern Day Jazz Story

Courtney Pine brings his retrospective tour Out of the Ghetto: A Modern Day Jazz Story to the Jim Marshall Auditorium at The Stables on Tuesday 10 November, starting at 8:00pm. It's a retrospective look back over a career that's been running for four decades, and the tour stops in Milton Keynes as part of that run.

Pine is one of the figures most associated with the shift in British jazz since the mid-eighties. His debut, Journey To The Urge Within, came out in 1986 and became the first serious jazz record to enter the UK Top 40, earning a Silver Disc. Since then he's released 17 studio albums, and his work has reached well beyond the jazz club: in 2014, Tate Modern commissioned him to compose and perform a musical response to Matisse, which was broadcast live to cinemas across the UK. That same year he joined Herbie Hancock for the UNESCO International Jazz Day concert in Osaka.

He's as much a presence in the music world as a broadcaster and teacher. He fronts the long-running Jazz Crusade on BBC Radio 2 and is Professor of Music at the University of Westminster, with a doctorate from Leeds College of Music and an OBE and CBE to his name. This year he's also featured in the V&A's The Music is Black, an exhibition celebrating pioneers of British music.

On the night, he'll be on saxophone, backed by Robert Mitchell on piano, Rio Kai on double bass, and Romarna Campbell on drums. Tickets are £31, which includes the booking fee, and the set kicks off at 8:00pm at The Stables in Wavendon.