Zoe Rahman: Kindred Spirits – review

ManushiPianist and one-time Mercury prize candidate Zoe Rahman bears the kind of mixed cultural heritage (English, Irish, Bangladeshi) that might have devoted her to world music. But she always sounds at her ebullient best as a jazz pianist – powered by the percussive thunder of McCoy Tyner, as taught to her by American pianist Joanne Brackeen. That dynamism drove Rahman's formidable 2009 album Live, whereas Kindred Spirits is a more eclectic venture. It's inspired by her discovery of the conn...

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