Tony Malaby / Angelica Sanchez / Tom Rainey

Tony Malaby / Angelica Sanchez / Tom Rainey: Alive in Brooklyn, Vol. 2

by Francis Lo Kee
January 30, 2006

Of the many bands that concentrate on so-called free improvisation, this trio may be the best. Many might be called avant-garde (or energy music, or any number of other terms) and there are a few people from more traditional backgrounds who dabble in free improvisation--or whatever else you want to call it--but this group's skill and commitment is singular. With the instrumentation of sax, piano, and drums, it might be assumed that the saxophone would take the ...

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

by Rex Butters
June 2, 2004

Alive in Brooklyn captures the buzz-prone Malaby/Sanchez/Rainey trio in the act on three extended performances, playing music improvised and occasionally arranged, keeping it exuberant and often enthralling. Their approach results in a unique flowing music, occasionally dissonant, but with unusual grace. Playing densely-toned electric piano, Angelica Sanchez nimbly keeps ideas coming. Tom Rainey drums with inspired variety. Tom Malaby plays sax with passion and driving fire.

Malaby plays a kid's melody to open 'Chimera,' but quickly the trio ...

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

by Phil DiPietro
March 25, 2004

A release full of surprises, all of which work! Despite the success of recent releases and concomitant ascent in notoriety for (husband and wife) pianist Angelica Sanchez and saxophonist Tony Malaby, we have what looks to be a self-released project here, arriving as it does in a cardboard sleeve, bearing the premier insignia of Sarama Records. In another guerilla tactic, the studio has been avoided in favor of the live date; here, at Barbe's, the hip new bastion of Brooklyn ...