Tony Malaby

Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Tony Malaby has been permanently based in New York since 1995 and has been a member of many notable jazz groups including Charlie Haden��s Liberation Orchestra, Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band, Mark Helias' Open Loose, Fred Hersch's quintet and Walt Whitman project, Michell Portal's Birdwatcher, various projects with Daniel Humair and bands led by Mario Pavone, Tim Berne, Chris Lightcap, Kris Davis, Angelica Sanchez, Michael Attias and Marty Ehrlich. His debut cd "Sabino"(Arabesque) made the NY Times and Philadelphia City Paper's top ten jazz lists for 2000

Sharon Mansur, Patricia Brennan, Amina Claudine Myers, Samuel Ber & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 12, 2025

In this week's installment of our sonic journey around the jazz world, we begin with the North Africa-North America express, driven by Trinidadian trumpet maestro Etienne Charles, and end with Brad Mehldau's reimagining of the music of Elliott Smith. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & ...

Lucian Ban: jazz, musica popolare della Romania e l'alter ego Mat Maneri

by Neri Pollastri
August 18, 2025

Originario della Romania, sebbene da quasi trent'anni residente a New York, il pianista Lucian Ban alterna da tempo le proprie produzioni originali alla ricerca sulla musica della propria terra, quasi sempre assieme al violista Mat Maneri, con il quale forma da anni uno stretto sodalizio artistico. Dopo aver pi�� volte parlato dei suoi album dedicati alla ...

?lvaro Torres: Iris

by Angelo Leonardi
August 14, 2025

Tempus fugit. Quest'album fotografa il debutto professionale a New York del pianista madrileno Álvaro Torres, in trio col batterista Barry Altschul e il contrabbassista John Hébert. La registrazione �� del luglio 2023 ma gi�� il mese successivo Torres presentava a Barcellona il quartetto europeo con Tony Malaby al sax tenore, Masa Kamaguchi al contrabbasso e Kresten ...

Louis Moholo Moholo, Sven ?ke Johansson, Olie Brice & Ville Lahteenmaki Trio

by Maurice Hogue
July 14, 2025

The final tunes of this episode of One Man's Jazz are memorials to two of the most important drummers in creative music who passed away within days of each other in June, and they're honoured in this episode. Louis Moholo Moholo and Sven ?ke Johansson came from very different places; Moholo Moholo was the last living ...

Lucian Ban: Following Bart��k's Trail Through the Transylvanian Villages

by Dean Nardi
June 18, 2025

It is hard to re-invent where jazz can go. Players can eschew all the conventional methods they want, but a wheel is still a wheel. This is a reason why pianist Lucian Ban's efforts to bring to light the Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist Bela Bart��k's works as a field collector of folk music in 21st-century ...

Malaby Reed Smiley Coulter: Continental Divide

by Glenn Astarita
February 4, 2025

A crackling energy permeates Continental Divide, as if the album itself straddles tectonic plates, with the music shifting and erupting underfoot like a geological tempest in full bloom. Saxophonist Tony Malaby and trumpeter Josh D. Reed, masters of controlled chaos, lead this exploratory quartet with raw yet precise lines amid urgent, reflective, and occasionally transcendent musings. ...

Live in Barcelona

By ?lvaro Torres

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Good Life; Siresimi; Calabosito; Echoes; You Dig; Lullaby

Continental Divide

By Tony Malaby

Label: Kreating SounD
Released: 2024
Track listing: Break Off; Variant; Dead Drift; Running Line; Anti-Reverse; Click Drag; Backlash; Hook Set; Slip Shot; Topaz; Hackle.

Another State Of Rhythm

By Tony Malaby

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Goodnight, Irene; The Sixth Commandment; Giraldo; All of Our Heroes; Ballad For Paul; Blend in By Standing Out; Stick to the Plan; Freebus; Montanha.