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Peripheral Vision: More Songs About Error And Shame
by Friedrich Kunzmann
The first half of 2018 sees the Toronto Jazz-scene bursting with fresh sound and innovation, bringing new and exciting nuances to what appears to be today's Status Quo. After the architecturally intense exploration that was saxophonist Gordon Hyland's Never Die!, by his group Living Fossil in February, the object of this review exposes shared similarities with ...
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 ...
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
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
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 ...
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