The Nick Fraser / Kris Davis / Tony Malaby Trio release 'Zoning"

The Nick Fraser / Kris Davis / Tony Malaby Trio is a group featuring compositions by Nick Fraser and improvised pieces by the trio. They released their debut, Too Many Continents on the Portuguese Clean Feed Records label in 2015. 

"This album rewards repeated listenings. It’s wholly musical, well paced, and there’s not a wasted note within. There’s an undeniable bond between the three, and this kinship results in a totally organic, balanced session. Nick Fraser’s Too Many Continents is a grand slam. " ~ Peter Gough, freejazz.org

"Fraser allows his collaborators free rein in a program that combines three of his charts with four cooperative creations, the borders between the two modes remaining deliciously unclear. Malaby delights in blurring and obscuring his conceptual impulses with impetuous and unpredictable blowing. With her patented amalgam of minimalist gesture invoking the likes of Morton Feldman and the dash of Cecil Taylor, Davis brings a sense of structure to even the most off-the-wall settings. Fraser harnesses both these talents in a wonderfully edgy set packed with contrapuntal interplay." ~ John Sharpe, New York City Jazz Record

  

Nick Fraser (leader, drums, compositions) has been an active and engaging presence in the Toronto new jazz and improvised music community for over twenty years. He has performed with a veritable "who's who" of Canadian jazz and improvised music and with such international artists as Marilyn  Crispell, Anthony Braxton and David Binney. For ten years, he co-led the group Drumheller, who released four critically acclaimed recordings. "Fraser not so much plays the drums as hurls himself whole body and soul against skin and metal... truly talented." ~ Bill Stunt, CBC Radio

Pianist-composer Kris Davis has blossomed as one of the singular talents on the New York jazz scene, a deeply thoughtful, resolutely individual artist who offers “uncommon creative adventure,” according to JazzTimes. “Davis draws you in so effortlessly that the brilliance of what she’s doing doesn’t hit you until the piece has slipped" ~ Jazz Times 

Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Tony Malaby (saxophone) has been based in New York since 1995 and has been a member of many notable jazz groups including Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band, Fred Hersch's quintet, and bands of his own. “One of New York City's most in-demand tenor saxophonists, Tony Malaby has become one of the most distinctive artists of his time." ~ Troy Collins, All About Jazz New York

Lina Allemano is a Canadian trumpeter, improviser, and composer based in Toronto ON since 1993. She has an active international career, performing and recording cutting-edge contemporary music primarily in free-jazz and improvised / experimental settings, but also working in a wide array of other genres. For the past several years, Lina has been splitting her time between Toronto and Berlin, with one foot in Berlin's flourishing and uncompromising art-music scene and the other foot in Toronto's vibrant but somewhat under-the-radar experimental-music scene. "(Trumpeter) Lina Allemano is one of the most exciting new voices of the last few years" [Brian Morton, Point of Departure, June 2013].

Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock is a saxophonist/composer based in Brooklyn since 2009. Laubrock is interested in exploring the borders between musical realms and creating multi-layered, dense and often evocative sound worlds.She has worked with: Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richards Abrams, Dave Douglas, Kenny Wheeler, Jason Moran, Tim Berne, William Parker, Tom Rainey, Mary Halvorson, Kris Davis, Tyshawn Sorey, Craig Taborn, Luc Ex, Django Bates’ Human Chain, The Continuum Ensemble, Wet Ink and many others.