Melting Pot (Zoe Rahman album)

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Melting Pot
Zoe Rahman - Melting Pot.jpg
Studio album by
Released1 July 2006 (2006-07-01)
Genre Jazz
Length52:36
Label Manushi Records
Producer Zoe Rahman
Zoe Rahman chronology
The Cynic
(2001)
Melting Pot
(2006)
Where Rivers Meet
(2008)

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

Contents

Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [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

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

Musicians

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryResult
2006 Mercury Music Prize Album of the YearNominated [4]
Parliamentary Jazz Awards Jazz Album of the YearWon

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References

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  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1190. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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  4. "Mercury Music Prize: The nominee". BBC News . 18 July 2006. Retrieved 1 March 2012.