Jazz Articles about Juliet Fraser

About Juliet Fraser

Album Review

Compared to the number of albums which many jazz or improvising musicians release, it can often be an eye-opener to glance at the discography of musicians from other genres. For example, although composer Laurence Crane was born in Oxford in 1961, is Professor of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and his music is frequently performed, recorded and broadcast in the UK and elsewhere, Natural World is only the seventh album to feature his music since his ...

Album Review

Laurence Crane: Natural World

Read "Natural World" reviewed by Marat Ingeldeev

by Marat Ingeldeev
April 8, 2023

Natural World is Laurence Crane's welcome and long-overdue addition to Another Timbre's catalogue of curiously beautiful music. Not only does this album sound fresh, but it also retains that essence of what makes the composer's music sound like it does: always on the edge of elegantly tripping up, but still managing to maintain its balance. This work, written specifically for and commissioned by soprano Juliet Fraser and pianist Mark Knoop, is part of Fraser's ongoing two-year project 'The Carson Commissions,' ...