Track Listing

1. Good Morning (Magundung Umaga)
2. Right On!
3. Southern Skandinavian Blues
4. Soul Power U!
5. Sunchilde
6. Joan Of Arc
7. And Then The World Stood Still And Prayed
8. Rising Sun
9. Resistance
10. On The Down Low
11. Outro - Vibranium
12. Hidden Track: I Can’t Say Goodbye (Feat. Juliet Kelly)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21866 in Music
• Released on: 2005-10-31
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

If only I knew more about Jazz.....
....I would know whether this album contributes to the "jazz canon". Aren't there two 'n's in cannon anyway?

I can understand that anyone who doesn't like "Devotion" is unlikely to appreciate this one either but for me, I did (like 'Devotion'), and I do (like 'Resistance'). It's for all moods at any time of the day, and I think that it's very good indeed. I have seen Mr Pine twice live and he is electric on stage, and that comes through to me on this album. Yes, it's different from, say, his playing of a standard like 'Sunny' for example and although I think that he plays that number really well, maybe that's for Jazz dinosaurs anyway.

Keep up the good work.

'Afropeans' should arrive with me today.

A loss of nerve.
There is no doubting Pine's talent and accomplishement, but I think that this album is very disappointing. When Courtney was playing the tracks live he announced that it encompassed jazz in all its forms. However boppy this CD might be ,it is not clear to me that it is jazz at all; at least not in 'all its forms'. I was loathe to stand and clap hands to these songs as Pine would have us do; I was even less willing to wave my hands in the air because of Pine's belief that jazz (if it is jazz) brings people together. Another reviewer used the word 'dull' to describe this album, and so it is; but it's frustrating because he is clearly able to produce original and exciting music; Underground proves this.

A sad decline
I read the other five star reviews with a sense that I have listened to a different album. Far from a "return to form", Resistance seems entirely formulaic and dull. If I was asked to guess I would say this collection represents a contractual obligation of the part of Pine. If so, hopefully he has paid his dues now & can return to the high form of Modern Day Jazz Stories, form of which there is virtually no evidence on this record. If anyone thinks Resistance added anything to the jazz canon, they really do not know what that canon represents.