Melting Pot (Zoe Rahman album)
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| Melting Pot | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1 July 2006 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 52:36 | |||
| Label | Manushi Records | |||
| Producer | Zoe Rahman | |||
| Zoe Rahman chronology | ||||
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Melting Pot is the second studio album by English jazz composer Zoe Rahman, released on 1 July 2006 by Manushi Records.[1]
Critical response[edit]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| The Guardian |   |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [2] |
John Fordham of The Guardian rated Melting Pot 3/5 and said, "Rahman's wayward and mobile left-hand patterns swerving under crisp postbop swingers like Camel, soft meditations with repeating low themes emerging under treble trills (Shiraz), dense, hypnotic, multilinear entanglements like the funky The Calling or free-jazz tussles preceding soft rumination like No-One."[3]
Track listing[edit]
All lyrics are written by Zoe Rahman except "Mucche Jaoa Dinguli" by Hemant Mukherjee
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Camel" | 6:14 |
| 2. | "J'Berg" | 7:01 |
| 3. | "Shiraz" | 8:33 |
| 4. | "The Calling" | 5:00 |
| 5. | "Red Flower" | 3:17 |
| 6. | "Last Note" | 6:09 |
| 7. | "No One" | 5:54 |
| 8. | "I'll Think About It" | 5:08 |
| 9. | "Mucche Jaoa Dinguli" | 5:16 |
| Total length: | 52:36 | |
Personnel[edit]
- Musicians
- Zoe Rahman – piano
- Gene Calderazzo – drums
- Oli Hayhurst - bass
- Pat Illingworth – drums
- Jeremy Brown – bass
- Idris Rahman – clarinet
- Adriano Adewale Itaúna – udu
Awards and nominations[edit]
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Mercury Music Prize | Album of the Year | Nominated[4] |
| Parliamentary Jazz Awards | Jazz Album of the Year | Won |
References[edit]
- ^ "Melting Pot". Jazzcds. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1190. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Fordham, John (18 November 2005). "Zoe Rahman, Melting Pot". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
- ^ "Mercury Music Prize: The nominee". BBC News. 18 July 2006. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
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