Nick Fraser
Drums
email | website: www.nickfraserthedrummer.com
Nick Fraser is an active and engaging presence in the Toronto new jazz and improvised music community. He has performed and/or recorded with such international artists as Michael Moore, Bobby Shew, Donny McCaslin, Marilyn Crispell, Anthony Braxton, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Jean-Luc Ponty, Bela Fleck, Joe Lovano, John Scofield, Wynton Marsalis, David Binney, Steve Turre, Matt Welch, Bill Carrothers and Bill Mays. Nick’s recorded works as a leader include ‘Owls in Daylight’ (1997) and ‘Nick Fraser and Justin Haynes’ are faking it (2004).
He has worked extensively with Rob Clutton and Ronda Rindone in the cooperative trio This Moment whose debut album Beautiful Line was released in 2002 on the 9Winds label. He also co-leads the co-operative group Drumheller with Brodie West, Rob Clutton, Eric Chenaux and Doug Tielli who released their self-titled debut CD on the Rat-Drifting label in 2005 and Wives in 2006.
Other projects that occupy Nick regularly are Michael Herring’s Vertigo, The AIMToronto Orchestra, the Ugly Beauties (with Marilyn Lerner and Matt Brubeck), Ronda Rindones’s Quorum, the Lina Allemano 4, Deep Dark United and The Bill Grove Quartet.
Nick is a founding member of The Association of Improvising Musicians of Toronto, a non-profit organization dedicated to the Toronto improvising community.
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