Nick Fraser with Tony Malaby and Kris Davis - Too Many Continents (2015)

Clean Feed Records: CF336CD
http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/product/too-many-continents/



* Nick Fraser : drums
* Tony Malaby : tenor saxophone, alto saxophone
* Kris Davis : piano

http://www.nickfraserthedrummer.com/
http://www.tonymalaby.net/
http://www.krisdavis.net/

· Tracks 1, 3, 5 and 7 by Nick Fraser (SOCAN), Tony Malaby
(Chubasco Music/SESAC) and Kris Davis (Socan)
· Tracks 2, 4 and 6 composed by Nick Fraser (SOCAN)

Recorded by Michael Brorby.
Mixed and mastered by Fedge.

Reviews

By Stuart Broomer
http://www.thewholenote.com/index.php/booksrecords2/jazzaimprovised/25543-jazz-eh-september-2015

In his 20 years in Toronto, Nick Fraser has become first-choice drummer for
numerous bandleaders ranging from the post-bop mainstream to free
improvisation. He’s done it with aggressive musicality and consistently
inventive drumming, combining drive and subtlety. He has also recorded his
compositions with his own quartet and the collective Drumheller. His latest CD
will introduce his talents to a far wider audience: Too Many Continents (Clean
Feed CF336, cleanfeed-records.com) appears on the most active free jazz label
in the world and presents Fraser at the heart of a trio with expatriate
Canadian pianist Kris Davis and saxophonist Tony Malaby, two key figures in
current NYC jazz activity. The opening title track achieves near telepathic
interaction, the group moving synchronously from delicate opening figures
through a co-ordinated tumult of sound in which each throws more and more
complex bits into the mix, eventually reversing the movement to ebb gradually
to silence. Episodes of extended free improvisation are separated by Fraser’s
compositions, among which the moody, corrosive Also stands out.

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By Peter Gough
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2015/08/nick-fraser-feat-kris-davis-tony-malaby.html

By Grego Applegate Edwards
http://www.gapplegatemusicreview.blogspot.com/2016/01/nick-fraser-too-many-continents-with.html

Marek Zając (pl)
http://multikultiproject.blogspot.com.es/2015/09/nick-fraser-tony-malaby-kris-davis-too.html

Jan Granlie (no)
http://salt-peanuts.eu/record/nick-fraser/

Da Stefano Merighi (it)
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/too-many-continents-nick-fraser-clean-feed-records-review-by-stefano-merighi.php

Par Julien Gros-Burdet (fr)
http://www.citizenjazz.com/Nick-Fraser.html