Friday, March 7
Doors: 7pm
Show Starts: 7:30pm
Tickets: $20 ($15 for students)
Michaël Attias has earned a reputation as one of the most questing and keenly collaborative figures on the 21st-century New York Jazz and Improvised Music scene, with a background and outlook that make him “an emphatically cosmopolitan saxophonist and composer,” according to The New York Times. Among his current projects are the longstanding collaborative trio RENKU with John Hébert and Satoshi Takeishi; Kardamon Fall with Santiago Leibson, Sean Conly and Tom Rainey; and LuMiSong with Leibson, Matt Pavolka, and Mark Ferber. As a sideman, he has worked in the bands of such luminaries as Anthony Braxton, Paul Motian, Oliver Lake, Masabumi Kikuchi, Michael Formanek, Ralph Alessi, Tony Malaby, Kris Davis, Andy Milne, Angelica Sanchez, Francisco Mela, Fay Victor… Attias has also composed for orchestra and big band; created several live electroacoustic scores and sound designs for legendary theatre director Robert Woodruff; and his music has been covered by artists including Eric Revis, Anthony Coleman, and most recently Kris Davis with Esperanza Spaulding.
Nick Fraser has been an active and engaging presence in the Toronto new jazz and improvised music community since he moved there from Ottawa in 1995. He has worked with a veritable “who’s who” of Canadian jazz and improvised music. In addition, he has had the opportunity to perform and/or record with such international artists as Tony Malaby, Kris Davis, Marilyn Crispell, Anthony Braxton, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Jean-Luc Ponty, Bela Fleck, Dave Liebman, and David Binney. Nick’s recorded works as a leader include Owls in Daylight (1997), Nick Fraser and Justin Haynes are faking it (2004), Towns and Villages (2013) and If There Were No Opposites (2021).
For 10 years, he co-led the co-operative group Drumheller with Brodie West, Rob Clutton, Eric Chenaux and Doug Tielli, who released four critically acclaimed CDs between 2005 and 2013. Other projects that occupy Nick regularly are Ugly Beauties (with Marilyn Lerner and Matt Brubeck), Peripheral Vision, the Lina Allemano Four, and Titanium Riot.
