Results for "Zoe Rahman"

Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A Orchestra at the Norfolk And Norwich Festival 2012

by Bruce Lindsay
June 13, 2012

Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A OrchestraTheatre Royal Norfolk And Norwich FestivalNorwich, UKMay 26, 2012It only took a quick glance at the stage to confirm that this was to be no ordinary jazz gig: Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A Orchestra doesn't do ordinary. Dammers, leader and keyboard player of '70s ska band The Specials, ...

Oriole: Every New Day

by Chris May
April 24, 2012

OrioleEvery New DayF-IRE2012Oriole's third album of sonorous South American and Iberian-flavored jazz has been some time coming. The London group, led by guitarist and composer Jonny Phillips, debuted with Song For The Sleeping in 2005 and followed up a year later with Migration (both F-IRE). There has been ...

Zoe Rahman Trio - Cherry

Featuring the music of Zoe Rahman
Duration: 3:37
February 15, 2012

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 ...

Kindred Spirits

By Zoe Rahman

Label: Not On Label
Released: 2011

Arun Ghosh: Primal Odyssey

by Chris May
October 21, 2011

Arun GhoshPrimal OdysseyCamoci Records2011 There you are, waiting for the next Indo-Jazz album to arrive, and then two come along at the same time. October 2011 has already seen the release of Grand Union Orchestra's If Paradise (Red Gold), and now here comes clarinetist Arun Ghosh's Primal ...

Jan Kopinski's Reflektor: Mirrors

by Chris May
July 26, 2011

Jan Kopinski's ReflektorMirrors33 Jazz2011 Tenor saxophonist Jan Kopinski is best known for his pioneering improv-meets-funk band, Pinksi Zoo. Formed in the mid-1980s, Pinski Zoo burst onto the emerging British delinquent-jazz scene around the same time as Rip Rig & Panic, then fronted by multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry's adopted ...

Natacha Atlas: Mounqaliba

by Chris M. Slawecki
June 11, 2011

Vocalist Natacha Atlas seems to embody the modern musical millennia: She was born in Brussels and raised in one of its Moroccan suburbs; her compositions and singing reach into and crisscross storied European and Arabic musical traditions. Primarily co-written and performed with multi-instrumentalist Samy Bishai along with pianist Zoe Rahman, a chamber orchestra and 20-piece Turkish ...

Voices Instrumental in Jazz

by Chris M. Slawecki
June 10, 2011

Natacha AtlasMounqalibaSix Degrees Records2010 Vocalist Natacha Atlas seems to embody the modern musical millennia: She was born in Brussels and raised in one of its Moroccan suburbs; her compositions and singing reach into and crisscross storied European and Arabic musical traditions. Primarily co-written ...

Jazz At Snape Proms

by Bruce Lindsay
September 3, 2010

Snape PromsSnape Maltings Concert HallSnape, UKAugust 10, 17 and 24, 2010 The Snape Proms, held each August in the beautiful Snape Maltings in the east of England, once again featured a strong and varied selection of jazz concerts in its program. The Ronnie Scott's Jazz Orchestra, the Neil Cowley Trio and ...