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Trying to connect the dots between English, Irish and Bengali heritage
Chris Searle interviews pianist ZOE RAHMAN on the release of her album Colour of Sound
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
THE albums of pianist Zoe Rahman are some of the jewels of British jazz.
Born in Chichester, West Sussex, in 1971, her father a Bengali-heritage English literature lecturer, her mother an English/Irish GP, she began on piano at four years old.
“As a teenager I listened to whatever was in the charts (1980s pop). Then I went to a jazz gig — I don’t even remember who it was, but I remember loving it and wanting to learn how to play like that,” Rahman says.
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