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Nick Fraser: Is Life Long?

by Mark Corroto
There is a pulse, maybe better stated a pace, drummer Nick Fraser is partial to on his recording Is Life Long?. His quartet, originally named Towns And Villages, is assembled around a concept. It is a two string (bass and cello), saxophone, and drum outfit. The music trawls an insouciant path through six original compositions. Being ...
Is Life Long?

By Nick Fraser
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Quicksand; Disclosure; Empathy; Skeleton; Arachnid; The Predictor.
TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2017

by John Kelman
TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 23-26, 2017 Amongst the most significant challenges that face any festival is, as the gray and no-hair crowd continues to age, finding ways to cultivate and grow a younger audience. But when you're a Canadian festival, another major challenge is a simple fiscal fact: most ...
Jessica Ackerley: Coalesce

by Hrayr Attarian
The contemplative and captivating Coalesce is guitarist Jessica Ackerley's debut release. On it Ackerley, with her trio, interprets seven of her engaging originals with intelligence and passion. The intimate atmosphere is well suited for both the collective musical expressions and individual melodic embellishments. This results in a cohesive album that thrills and intrigues. The ...
A Very Large Gap

Label: Independent
Released: 2016
Track listing: Treefology
Midden
Impermanence
With Both Feet On The Ground
Moanin'
Fearless and Kind
Seedy Underbelly Button
Roadhouse, Mass.
Blues Bird (White Throated Sparrow)
Further Than The Future
Quantum
Tzac
A Very Large Gap
Too Many Continents

By Nick Fraser
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Too Many Continents; Recovered as Granted (Sketches 28 & 27); I Needed It Yesterday; Also; Nostalgia for the Recent Past; Sketch #25; There'll Be More Dreams to Come.
Starer

By Nick Fraser
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: Minimalism/416-538-7149; Sketch #26; Starer; Sketch 329; Jupiter (Sketch #
15); Sketch #20/22; Sketch #21.
Ice Age Paradise

Label: Independant
Released: 2016
Track listing: Drifting Daydream, Cold, Invisible, Your Eyes, Blind Spot, Venezia, Si Je Pouvais, Ice Age Paradise, Boat Afloat An
Ocean, Reappearing Dream
Nick Fraser Quartet: Starer

by Glenn Astarita
Canadian drummer Nick Fraser follows up his trio CD Too Many Continents (Clean Feed, 2015) featuring pianist Kris Davis and saxophonist Tony Malaby with this quartet date also featuring Malaby, consummated by cellist Andrew Downing and bassist Rob Clutton. Hence, the leader imparts an atypical vista, contoured by his scrappy or terse drumming, where structural song-forms ...
Nick Fraser: Too Many Continents

by Stefano Merighi
Vent'anni di esperienza a Toronto nel jazz e nella musica improvvisata di quella scena, il batterista Nick Fraser coltiva anche amicizie musicali ad ampio raggio, come dimostra la partnership con la connazionale Kris Davis e l'americano Tony Malaby. La musicalità di Fraser spazia da un jazz avanzato contemporaneo fino alla free music più ...