Courtney Pine & Sheema Mukherjee

age of 5 with the guidance of one of the

greatest Indian classical vocalists,

Ustad Amir Khan.

She was presented a sitar at the

age of nine by her illustrious uncle

Pandit Nikhil Banerjee,

under whom she began her study

of the sitar in the rigorous and

disciplined manner of traditional

Indian classical music teaching.

http://www.mukherjee.co.uk/biograrhy/biog_1.html

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Courtney Pine CBE (born 18 March 1964, London) is an English jazz musician. At school he studied the clarinet, although he is known primarily for his saxophone playing. Pine is a multi-instrumentalist, also playing the flute, clarinet and keyboards.

His recent music has attempted to integrate modern British music like drum and bass and UK garage with contemporary jazz styles. He runs his own band and integrates many contemporary musicians in his performances. He also presents 'Jazz Crusade' on BBC Radio 2, the seventh series of which was broadcast during spring 2007.

Pine was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2000, and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours for services to jazz music.[1] He was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Westminster on 6 December 2004.

Pine appeared in August 2008 as an advocate for Pierre Boulez, on the BBC World News classical music programme, 'Visionaries'.

More.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtney_Pine