Jazz Articles

Zoe Rahman: Colour of Sound

by Neil Duggan
July 4, 2023

If you have shown your virtuosity on the piano in a variety of live and studio recordings, been recognized as one of the leading lights in contemporary British jazz and won multiple awards, what do you do next? In Zoe Rahman's case, more of the same but expanded and magnified. Most often heard in a trio format, Rahman has assembled seven trusted musicians to create an uplifting album, The Colour of Sound. Perhaps resulting from her background in ...

Zoe Rahman Trio: Live with special guest Idris Rahman

by Chris May
May 4, 2009

Zoe Rahman was most recently heard on disc, as leader, with the enchanting Where Rivers Meet (Manushi, 2008), in which the British-born pianist explored her Bengali father's musical heritage. The core band for that album included Zoe's clarinetist brother, Idris, and her regular bassist Oli Hayhurst and drummer Gene Calderazzo, an American who's long been resident in London. The same quartet is featured on Live with special guest Idris Rahman, with Idris guesting on two tracks.

Live was ...

Zoe & Idris Rahman: Where Rivers Meet

by Chris May
September 27, 2008

The Bengali folk and film music inspired Where Rivers Meet introduces a radical and beautiful new direction for the London-based pianist Zoe Rahman and her clarinetist/saxophonist brother, Idris.

Born and brought up in Britain by a Bengali father and English mother, Zoe Rahman describes herself as culturally “very English," and her previous work has been shaped almost entirely by the American jazz tradition filtered through British sensibilities. The first sign she gave of an emerging interest in Bengali ...