Zoe Rahman
Zoe Rahman (born January 20, 1971 in Chichester ) is a British jazz musician ( piano , composition ).
Live and act
Rahman, who is the daughter of a Bengali father and a British mother, grew up in Chichester and only later became interested in her father's culture. She studied classical piano at the Royal Academy of Music and studied musicology at Oxford University before going to Berklee College of Music for jazz training , where she was tutored by Joanne Brackeen .
In North America she founded her first trio with bassist Joshua Davis and drummer Bob Moses . In later years she also worked with her brother, the clarinetist Idris Rahman . In addition to her own band projects, she has also performed with Courtney Pine , Steve Williamson , the JazzXchange Dance Company , Keziah Jones and Mekaal Hasan. She wrote a theater show about Boris Vian , which she staged not only in Great Britain but also in South America between 2003 and 2005. She has performed at numerous international festivals, such as the North Sea Jazz Festival , the Molde Jazz Festival and the Barbados Jazz Festival .
She has also performed with other musicians such as Reem Kelani ( Sprinting Gazelle ), Clark Tracey ( The Calling , The Mighty Sas ); Gary Boyle ( Games ), the Soothsayers ( Tangled Roots ), Arun Ghosh and Terry Hall / Mushtaq ( The Hour of Two Lights ).
Prizes and awards
Rahman received the Perrier Young Jazz Musician of the Year 'Award in 1999. 2001 her debut album was The Cynic in the Jazz Album of the Year Review of BBC Radio 3 listed; she herself was nominated for the "Rising Star" category of the BBC Jazz Awards . Her second album, Melting Pot , was named Album of the Year in the British Parliamentary Jazz Awards in 2006 and was also nominated for the Mercury Music Prize .
Discographic notes
- The Cynic (with Winston Clifford , Jeremy Brown, 2001)
- Melting Pot (with Gene Calderazzo , Oli Hayhurst , Pat Illingworth, Jeremy Brown, Idris Rahman, Adriano Itauna, 2006)
- Where Rivers Meet (Idris Rahman, Arnob, Gaurob, Kuljit Bhamra, Gene Calderazzo, Oli Hayhurst, Samy Bishai, 2008)
- Live (with Gene Calderazzo, Oli Hayhurst, Idris Rahman, 2009)
- George Mraz & Zoe Rahman Unison (2013)
- Dreamland (solo, 2015)
Web links
- Web presence
- Review of Zoe Rahman Trio , in The Guardian , February 22, 2005
- interview
- Zoe Rahman at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Zoe Rahman - Press ( Memento of July 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ A b John Fordham Zoe Rahman, Melting Pot (review) , The Guardian , Nov. 18, 2005
- ^ British Bengali Success Stories - Zoe Rahman
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rahman, Zoe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th January 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chichester |