Jazz Articles about Zoe Rahman

Zoe Rahman Quintet/Meilana Gillard Quartet At Bray Jazz Festival

by Ian Patterson
May 10, 2024

Zoe Rahman Quintet/Meilana Gillard Quartet Mermaid Arts Centre Bray Jazz Festival 2024 Bray, Ireland May 3, 2024 2024 should have marked Bray Jazz Festival's 25th anniversary but for those two years or more of you know what. The silver anniversary will have to wait; no matter, because each year at BJF, since Andrew Hill graced the first edition in 2000, is a little bit special--a celebration, a voyage of discovery. As ever, it ...

Zoe Rahman, Jason Adasiewicz, Vilhelm Bromander

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 13, 2024

Zoe Rahman opens the show with the beautiful writing and arrangements of her latest album, followed by two remarkable recent releases by Jason Adasiewicz. At the end of the set the compelling music of Vilhelm Bromander.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Zoe Rahman “For Love" Colour of Sound (Manushi) 0:16 Host talks 6:33 Jason Adasiewicz “River Blindness" Roy's World (Corbett vs. Dempsey) 8:15 Jason Adasiewicz “The Waltz" Roscoe ...

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 ...

Courtney Pine: Spirituality

by Chris May
November 27, 2022

In the 1980s, as a co-founder of the band Jazz Warriors and with his debut album Journey To The Urge Within (Island, 1986), reed player Courtney Pine inspired a generation young black British musicians, and not a few white ones, too. On Spirituality, Pine teams up with pianist Zoe Rahman, herself an influential figure, for a reprise of their album Song (The Ballad Book) (Destin-E, 2015). Both albums feature Pine on bass clarinet and Rahman in a ...

Zoe Rahman: Kindred Spirits

by Chris May
January 26, 2012

Zoe RahmanKindred SpiritsManushi Records2012 Holy soul food, Batman! It feels good to listen to a musician who plays from the heart rather than the brain. Not that British pianist Zoe Rahman is deficient in the grey stuff or technique. She studied music at Oxford University, the Royal Academy of Music and Berklee; once, twice, three times an alumnus. But when Rahman is seated at the keyboard, and her band kicks 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 ...