Melting Pot (Zoe Rahman album)

Melting Pot is the second studio album by English jazz composer Zoe Rahman, released on 1 July 2006 by Manushi Records.[1]

Melting Pot
Studio album by
Released1 July 2006 (2006-07-01)
GenreJazz
Length52:36
LabelManushi Records
ProducerZoe Rahman
Zoe Rahman chronology
The Cynic
(2001)
Melting Pot
(2006)
Where Rivers Meet
(2008)

Critical response edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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.TitleLength
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

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

  1. ^ "Melting Pot". Jazzcds. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  2. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1190. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. ^ Fordham, John (18 November 2005). "Zoe Rahman, Melting Pot". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Mercury Music Prize: The nominee". BBC News. 18 July 2006. Retrieved 1 March 2012.

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