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John Kameel Farah

Nick Fraser: Still Screaming Into The Snare Drum

by Lawrence Peryer
May 23, 2026

Today, The Tonearm's needle lands on Toronto drummer and composer Nick Fraser.Nick Fraser is one of the most distinctive voices in Canadian improvised music. He has played with Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, and William Parker, and has led projects that range from raw free jazz to something much harder to name.His latest ...

Farahser

By John Kameel Farah

Label: Elastic Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Flatland; Twigs; Insect Mountain; Waltz; Dirge; Baby Birds; The Churn; Elevator.

Farahser: Flatland

by John Chacona
July 5, 2024

As Farahser, Torontonians John Kameel Farah, a classically trained pianist, and drummer/producer Nick Fraser roam the frontier where improvised and notated music meet. It is well traveled territory these days, but on their eponymous release these sonic explorers find a borderland between memory and legend, imagination and investigation. Echoes of the Palestine of Farah's ancestors ripple ...

John Kameel Farah & Nick Fraser: Farahser

by Glenn Astarita
June 28, 2024

On their entrancing debut duo outing Farahser-- Toronto/Berlin-based keyboardist and composer John Kameel Farah and eminent Toronto area drummer Nick Fraser--engage in a thrillingly unpredictable and genre-defying musical conversation. Drawing upon their respective backgrounds in classical, jazz, and experimental music, Farah and Fraser craft a series of spontaneous compositions which distort the lines between ...

New Releases From Shabaka, Benji Kaplan, Brenda Earle Stokes, Jason Robinson And More

by Bob Osborne
May 30, 2024

On this show we feature all new releases from Shabaka, Benji Kaplan, Brenda Earle Stokes, Jason Robinson, Tania Giannouli, Irina Zubareva, John Kameel Farah & Nick Fraser, OVK3, Behn Gillece, Ivo Perelman & Tom Rainey, Matthew McDonald, The Claudio Scolari Project, The New Orleans Klezmer All Stars, Peter Daniel, Voodoo Drummer, and, Kojiro Umezaki & Hub ...

Sonic Explorations and Creative Improvisations at The Guelph Jazz Festival

by Dave Kaufman
October 5, 2019

In North America, there are over 100 annual jazz festivals. Only a small number of these festivals are devoted to the avant-garde, adventurous, and freely improvised music. The Vision Festival in New York City is perhaps the best known festival with its celebration of improvised music, dance, and poetry. There are a few others that are ...

Enjoy Jazz Festival 2014

by Adriana Carcu
November 28, 2014

Enjoy Jazz Festival Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Germany October 2 -November 15, 2014 Here are the festival numbers: 80 shows in almost seven weeks on 25 stages, performed by 250 musicians from 35 countries. Beyond the numbers there are many names: quite a few well known, a fair amount of established artists ...

Unfolding

By John Kameel Farah

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 2009

Creation

By John Kameel Farah

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 2006