Jazz Articles about Tony Malaby

Tony Malaby: Adobe

by AAJ Staff
December 26, 2004

As he mentioned in last month's issue of All About Jazz-Los Angeles , saxophonist Tony Malaby finds great challenges and rewards from being a jazz musician in New York City, “It's such a wonderful place. I continue to get my butt kicked every week." What ever has not killed him has certainly made him stronger, as evidenced by Adobe, Malaby's fourth solo album. A work enriched greatly by the lively and sincere musical relationship among Malaby, Drew Gress (bass), and ...

Tony Malaby: Adobe

by Jeff Stockton
October 3, 2004

Tony Malaby is a five-tool saxophonist who can handle standards, ballads, fiery improvisation, delicate abstraction, and sympathetic accompaniment with equivalent skill. He demonstrates the full range of his talents on Adobe, a trio session with bassist Drew Gress and revolutionary drummer Paul Motian. In this setting, there is no true leader as each player alternately moves to the front or stands aside to serve the demands of the tune. The result is a relaxed, inviting recording whose loose spirit and ...

Tony Malaby / Angelica Sanchez / Tom Rainey: Alive in Brooklyn

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
April 24, 2004

Alive in Brooklyn, the debut release from the improvising trio of saxophonist Tony Malaby, Wurlitzer player Angelica Sanchez, and drummer Tom Rainey, was recorded live last September at Barbes. Despite having no written music to provide context for the improvisations, the trio gives them momentum and shape without blurting hundreds of notes devoid of meaning. Instead, the pieces wind through dynamic peaks and valleys, threatening to spin out of control, but remaining grounded by the musicians' support and close listening. ...

Tony Malaby: Apparitions

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
December 20, 2003

For saxophonist Tony Malaby this has been a landmark year, with appearances on recordings by Mark Helias, Mario Pavone, Angelica Sanchez, as well as his own Apparitions – his second record as a leader. It brings the saxophonist together with bassist Drew Gress and drummers Tom Rainey and Michael Sarin. Despite the tandem drummers (who individually sound like two people), Apparitions is not a blur of notes and noise – the musicians listen and react, letting the music breathe.

Tony Malaby: Apparitions

by Jerry D'Souza
November 20, 2003

The concept of two drummers is not new to jazz, but it is rather unusual in a quartet. Hand it to Tony Malaby: he knows what he was doing. His music calls for an intense rhythm bed and both Tom Rainey and Mark Sarin, brothers of the pulse, interweave to set up that organic fabric.

Malaby is a robust tenor player. His voice is full blooded and he lends a definite presence as he marks his territory ...

Tony Malaby: Apparitions

by AAJ Staff
November 1, 2003

Some say John Coltrane was mad with divine love. And they're right. The voice of the spirit flowed through everything he did, more and more so toward the end. He was indeed doomed to a life of eternal love.

Along Coltrane's course to the great beyond, he saw something special in the sound of two drummers, which was a pretty natural stretch given the way he had continually picked up the sounds of Africa. It's too bad Rashied ...

Saxophonist Tony Malaby

by Matt Rand
October 28, 2003

Tony Malaby is wearing running pants and sandals. His window is wide open to the street out front and the chilly air that the sunset is bringing in. He has just gotten off the phone with the Knitting Factory, working out the particulars for the June 30th CD release party for his upcoming album, Apparitions. Across the room from his desk with the phone is a drum set that he and his wife, pianist Angelica Sanchez, keep in ...