Nick Fraser

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Nick Fraser (2008)

Nick Fraser (born April 29, 1976 in Ottawa ) is a Canadian jazz and improvisation musician ( drums , composition ).

Live and act

Fraser, whose role models include Joey Baron and Jack DeJohnette as well as Gerry Hemingway and Tony Oxley , moved from his hometown of Ottawa to Toronto in 1995, where he still lives today. Soon he was playing in the rhythm section in the jam sessions at the Ottawa International Jazz Festival .

Fraser was the leader or co-leader of the groups Drumheller and This Moment , with which recordings were made. His own quartet (with Tony Malaby and Rob Clutton on bass and Andrew Downing on cello) has a first album Towns and Villages in 2013 and the album Is Life Long? released on Clean Feed Records . He formed a collaborative trio with Malaby and the pianist Kris Davis ( Two Many Continents 2015). He is also the co-leader of another musically diverse trio, Ugly Beauties , with pianist Marilyn Lerner and cellist Matt Brubeck. With François Houle , Nicola Fazzini and Alessandro Fedrigo, he formed the ITACA group.

Fraser is a founding member of the Association of Improvising Musicians of Toronto . He has performed with John Oswald , Mike Murley , PJ Perry , Michael Snow , Phil Dwyer , Anthony Braxton and Béla Fleck . Furthermore, he has been working in the bands of trumpeter Lina Allemano ( Lina Allemano Four and Titanium Riot ) since 2006 , with whom several albums were created. With Peripheral Vision , a quartet led by guitarist Don Scott and bassist Michael Herring, he presented the album Sheer Tyranny of Will (2014). He can also be heard on Florian Höfner's album First Spring .

Discographic notes

  • Owls In Daylight (1997)
  • This Moment Beautiful Line (2001, with Ronda Rindone, Rob Clutton)
  • Drumheller Wives (2006, with Doug Tielli, Brodie West, Eric Chenau, Rob Clutton)
  • John Geggie, Marilyn Crispell , Nick Fraser Geggie Project (2008)
  • Nick Fraser / Kris Davis / Tony Malaby Zoning (2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c entry (Canadian Jazz Archive)
  2. ^ First Spring meeting
personal data
SURNAME Fraser, Nick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian jazz and improvisation musician (drums, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottawa