Jazz Articles about Peter Fraize

About Peter Fraize

Album Review

Heather McKay: Life Got in the Way

Read "Life Got in the Way" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 15, 2025

Guitarist Heather McKay, who has performed with artists in a variety of styes from Latin jazz to rock, rhythm and blues to Afro- Caribbean, even Persian music and beyond in a career that has spanned more than twenty-five years and counting, provides a rationale for writing every song (save one) on her debut recording, Life Got in the Way. But she does not say why she chose the album's name. The presumption is that she has been far too busy ...

Album Review

Atlanticus: Blue Haven

by Chris May
July 5, 2022

Atlanticus is a hands-across-the-pond quartet led by Washington, DC-based tenor saxophonist Peter Fraize and Brighton, England-based organist Terry Seabrook. The lineup is completed by fellow Brightoners, trumpeter Jack Kendon and drummer Milo Fell. Each of the four musicians has two or more decades of experience behind them. Atlanticus first toured together in 2016 and Blue Haven, the group's debut, was recorded live in the studio following a lengthy British tour in 2018. After two years ...