Nick Fraser

Nick Fraser is a Toronto drummer and who has been active in the Toronto jazz community since 1996. He is most active in the experimental and avant-garde scene.
Career
As a teenager, he played in the band "The Spines" with violinist Pemi Paull.
Bill Stunt of CBC Radio states that "Fraser not so much plays the drums as hurls himself whole body and soul against skin and metal" and calls him "truly talented." Mark Miller from The Globe & Mail states that "The young Toronto drummer is perhaps a little too progressive for the hidebound Canadian scene." Miller says "Fraser is a deft and sensitive percussionist with a hint of an enigmatic streak, a feeling for economical gestures, and an innate sense of form."
The Ottawa Citizen states that "if music is a language, then Nick Fraser is definitely speaking in a different tongue." Fraser states that he likes the "...major figures of that kind music, including Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler and Dewey Redman." Fraser admits that his recordings "can be an intense listen."<ref namecitizen/> The review notes that Fraser also performs outside the avant-garde, such as with a blues guitarist and a jazz band called Peripheral Vision.<ref namecitizen/>
Performance examples
*Live show example of the Nick Fraser Quartet

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