Zooma

Zooma is the 1999 debut solo album by English musician John Paul Jones, best known as the bassist and keyboardist of Led Zeppelin. The album consists of rhythmically focused instrumentals, highlighting Jones’ aggressive bass guitar and pedal steel guitar playing.

Zooma
Studio album by John Paul Jones
Released	6 September 1999
Recorded	The Malthouse, London Skip Saylor Studio, Los Angeles Pedernales Studios, Spicewood, Texas AIR Studios, London
Genre	Instrumental rock, progressive rock, hard rock, blues rock, heavy metal
Length	47:42
Label	Discipline Global Mobile
Producer	John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones chronology
The Sporting Life (1994) Zooma (1999) The Thunderthief (2001)

Track listing

All tracks written, composed, and arranged by John Paul Jones.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Zooma"	5:52
2.	"Grind"	5:20
3.	"The Smile of Your Shadow"	5:50
4.	"Goose"	4:58
5.	"Bass 'n' Drums"	2:32
6.	"B. Fingers"	5:26
7.	"Snake Eyes"	7:32
8.	"Nosumi Blues"	5:48
9.	"Tidal"	4:20
10.	"Fanfare for the Millennium" (bonus track for Japanese releases)	1:02

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	[2]

The album received positive reviews from AllMusic and Rolling Stone.

Personnel

Adapted from the Zooma liner notes, the recording personnel was as follows:

• John Paul Jones – 10 string bass (1, 4, 6, 9); 12 string bass (2, 3); 4 string bass (5, 7, 8); electric mandola (1); Kyma (1, 2, 4, 7, 9); spoken word (2); mandola (3); bass lap steel (3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10); guitars (6); organ solo (7); string arrangement and conducting (7)
• Pete Thomas – drums (1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9)
• Paul Leary – guitar solo (1)
• Trey Gunn – touch guitar solo (2, 6)
• Mo Jones – spoken word (2)
• Denny Fongheiser – djembe (3); drums (5)
• London Symphony Orchestra – strings (7)

The technical personnel was as follows:

• Stuart Sullivan – recording engineer
• Richard Evans – recording engineer
• Brian Foraker – recording engineer
• Geoff Foster – recording engineer
• Akio Morishima – design
• Amy & Tanveer – photography