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The Cave Of Winds by Tony Malaby's Sabino, released on Pyroclastic Records in 2022

Free Jazz Collective wrote:

Tony Malaby has not escaped the notice of the Free Jazz Collective. Last August we posted a fine review by Stef Gijssels’ of Malaby’s Turnpike Diaries. With live jazz music shut down tight, Malaby convened a series of performances under a New York turnpike bridge. You can find a nice, luxuriously long clip here. I love the oblivious cars passing behind the group and the young man who pauses to dance. As I understand it, Malaby came to refer to this venue as the cave of winds...

Cave of Winds opens with a short Malaby solo. Slowly the wind picks up, bringing a nice percussive thump from the bass, a flute-like melody from the guitar, and some slither from the drums. Like a string quartet, it is divided into sections...

https://www.freejazzblog.org/2022/03/tony-malabys-sabino-cave-of-winds.html

https://tonymalabypyroclastic.bandcamp.com/album/the-cave-of-winds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow4FqHF5YQA&list=RDOw4FqHF5YQA&start_radio=1

#TonyMalaby #BenMonder #MichaelFormanek #TomRainey #freejazz #music #jazz

Andi Chorley Sep 1, 2025

Be It As I See It
by Gerald Cleaver and Uncle June, released on Fresh Sound New Talent in 2010.

Nic Jones wrote for All About Jazz:

"...Be It As I See It, his fourth as a leader in his own right—and in the company of his Uncle June ensemble, featuring reed man Tony Malaby and bassist Drew Gress—is as reflective of the times we live in as it is with a broader historical continuum.

...As the final track, "From A Life Of The Same Name" has the effect of closing things out both literally and metaphorically; clarifying the degree to which Cleaver and his cohorts have pulled off the considerable feat of reconciling a past with a present, without wallowing in tiresome, neo-conservative staples. The result is a program of highly individual music, beautifully realized."

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/be-it-as-i-see-it-gerald-cleaver-fresh-sound-new-talent-review-by-nic-jones/

https://freshsoundrecords1.bandcamp.com/album/uncle-june-be-it-as-i-see-it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xzdu92lS-M&list=RD1xzdu92lS-M&start_radio=1

#geraldcleaver #freejazz #AndrewBishop
#TonyMalaby #CraigTaborn #MatManeri #migration

Andi Chorley Jun 1, 2025

Huapango by Tony Malaby, Angelica Sanchez, Tom Rainey – Huapango released on RogueArt in 2022

Tony Malaby: tenor and soprano saxophones
Angelica Sanchez: piano, Wurlitzer electric piano
Tom Rainey: drums

"There’s no leading, no following. We’re in the moment together. They even know when I’m going to take a breath — I can feel it." Tony Malaby

"It sounds simple to say, but the three of us have real creative chemistry together. Chemistry is the difference between just a group of good musicians playing in a room and something magical happening." Tom Rainey

"The longevity of it means something — there’s so much life and love in this group. As for the music, it’s about the joy of surprise. For some people, the unexpected can make them uncomfortable — for us, it’s inspiring." Angelica Sanchez

https://rogueart1.bandcamp.com/album/huapango

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2tUZh8aulI

#tonymalaby #tomrainey #angelicasanchez #freejazz

Andi Chorley May 4, 2025

Tony Malaby: Sabino
By Mark Corroto

"...For this disc he stays with a piano-less quartet but replaces the trumpet with French guitarist Marc Ducret, a former member of Tim Berne’s bands Big Satan and Caos Totale. In fact all three sidemen heard here are former associates of Berne. Drummer Tom Rainey played in Big Satan and Paraphrase and Formanek is a member of Bloodcount and Caos Totale. Malaby, like Berne, eschews the soft side of jazz for that irascible edge. Ducret plays perfect accessory to this music as he tends towards the angular. Even the circular-waltz “Ajo Comino” doesn’t ease the tension. But you can find beauty in this coarse affair; the title track has a kinder street touch. But sans piano leave the quartet with the constant job of locomotion throughout. Malaby relies heavily on Formanek for much of the structure as Rainey is constantly supplying accent. Connoisseurs of creative voices in jazz will appreciate Malaby’s singular voice."

#tonymalaby #marcducret #jazz

Andi Chorley Apr 13, 2025

Tony Malaby / Angelica Sanchez / Tom Rainey: Alive in Brooklyn, Vol. 2 2005

Troy Collins wrote for All About Jazz

...Sanchez once again eschews acoustic piano for an electric Wurlitzer, invoking the brooding atmospherics of late-1970s fusion as well as the aggressive pointillist attack of that hallowed genre's more impetuous artists. Malaby is a masterful tenor stylist: capable of both paint-peeling multiphonic excess and subtle harmonic experimentation, he is able to compress the big horn's timbre down into the range of a flute. Rainey is a longtime Downtown scene veteran. His varied experiences have endowed him with a deep wellspring of creativity, veering from nuanced, rubato brush work and angular metered grooves to throttling tribal rhythms...

#freejazz #tonymalaby #angelicasanchez #tomrainey #downtownNY

Andi Chorley Apr 5, 2025

Tony Malaby / Angelica Sanchez / Tom Rainey: Alive In Brooklyn released in 2004

Rex Butters wrote for All About Jazz:

"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.."

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/alive-in-brooklyn-sarama-review-by-rex-butters

#freejazz #jazz #AngelicaSanchez #tonymalaby #tomrainey

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

Tony Malaby / Angelica Sanchez / Tom Rainey: Alive In Brooklyn album review by Rex Butters, published on June 2, 2004. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!

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