London Jazz Award Nomination Zoe Rahman: '.. currently touring the surprisingly compatible confection of American, Bengali and Irish music... Ireland and the east were joined in two Rabindranath Tagore pieces (the Bengali polymath tuned into Celtic music while studying in the UK), brought to life by the band... It was an evening of broad-ranging jazz played with glee.'

The Guardian:“The body language of British pianist Zoe Rahman always gives the game away. She loves musical conversations, and her vivacious relationship with her regular trio, and with her reeds-playing brother, Idris, often sparks memorable live shows. Rahman is currently touring the surprisingly compatible confection of American, Bengali and Irish music... Ireland and the east were joined in two Rabindranath Tagore pieces (the Bengali polymath tuned into Celtic music while studying in the UK), brought to life by the band... It was an evening of broad-ranging jazz played with glee.”

A Chichester-raised musician, Zoe didn’t stop short on her education, first studying classical piano at the Royal Academy of Music, then on to Oxford for a Music degree, and finally a scholarship took her over the pond to study jazz performance in Boston, where she formed her now renowned jazz trio. She has performed live for the BBC World Service and Radio 3, and co-wrote jazz-based theatre show I’m a Fool to Want you, which toured South America from 2003-2005. Zoe is British-Bengali, but has only used her Bengali roots in later works, having had a ‘completely English’ childhood. She was  nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and won the Parliamentary Jazz Award for Album of the year in 2006, in response to her second album, Melting Pot.