Toronto-based vibraphonist & composer Michael Davidson has built a reputation on moving fluidly between genres, consistently defying stylistic boxes. His music has been described “as sensuously immediate, yet questing, as it is both structurally rigorous and open in poetic effect” (The Jazz Journal). Michael is an in demand collaborator across the improvised, jazz, and creative music scenes. His musical pursuits blur the lines between composition and improvisation drawing equally from jazz, free music and classical traditions. Michael has worked with many of the active jazz and improvised music players in Toronto and internationally including David Friedman, Roscoe Mitchell, Peter Zummo, Lina Allemano, Andrew Downing, David Occhipinti, Terry Clarke, and most recently with drumming legend, Joe Chambers, featured prominently on his latest BlueNote Records release, Dance Kobina. With double bassist Dan Fortin, he has started an independent record label, Elastic Recordings, exploring music that blurs the boundaries between improvisation and composition. In Clock Radio, “Listeners will appreciate this duo’s uncanny ability to corral compositional elements balanced by harmony, melody and flexible rhythms, manifesting ideas in the purest form of creation” (Jazz and Beyond). You can hear Michael performing and collaborating with an array of groups in Canada, representing the diversity of his musical interests, spanning from contemporary jazz to chamber to improvised.