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Chris May's Best Releases of 2012

Christian ScottaTunde AdjuahConcord RecordsIn 1959, when Whitney Balliett, the New Yorker's jazz critic, published a collection of his columns, he titled the book The Sound of Surprise. The promise of the unexpected, wrote Balliett, was jazz's most precious quality. In a year which went on to include the release of ...
Live with special guest Idris Rahman

Label: Manushi Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: The Stride; Ha Gente Aqui; Friday 13th; Tuang Guru; Muchhe Jaoa Dinguli; Harlem Blues; Egyptian Tune Dance; Last Note.
Zoe Rahman Trio: Live with special guest Idris Rahman

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 ...
Where Rivers Meet

Label: Manushi Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: O River; Invitation Missed; Sanctuary; Betrayed; You Came Like Welcome Rain; Now You're Gone; Pilgrim's Song; Mind's Eye; Stream Of Joy; Suddenly It's Dusk Again; We'll Surely Meet Again; Do You Wish To Forget?.
Zoe & Idris Rahman: Where Rivers Meet

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 ...