Tony Malaby

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Tony Malaby
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Tony Malaby (* 1964 in Tucson / Arizona ) is an American jazz saxophonist.

Live and act

Malaby grew up in Tucson and attended William Paterson College in New Jersey from 1990 . He met the organist Joey DeFrancesco in New York City , and he was his sideman for a year. Subsequently he worked with several bands and musicians: with Charlie Hadens Liberation Music Orchestra , Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band , Mark Helias ' Open Loose and Fred Hersch's quintet and his Walt Whitman project , also with Mario Pavone , Bobby Previte , Tom Varner , Marty Ehrlich , Sunna Gunnlaugs , Mark Dresser and Kenny Wheeler . During this time he began working with Michael Formanek in a band with Tom Rainey and Marty Ehrlich.

In 1993 his first album was released as co-leader Cosas with Joey Sellers and Michael Formanek. In 1996 he recorded the CD Quartet with trumpeter Dave Scott . In 2000 his first own album Sabino was released . This was followed by Apparitions (with Tom Rainey , Michael Sarin and Drew Gress , 2003), Alive in Brooklyn (recording from Barbès (Brooklyn), with Angelica Sanchez and Tom Rainey, 2004) and Adobe (with Drew Gress and Paul Motian, 2004) . On his album Paloma Recio he devoted himself to the Musica Calada by Frederic Mompou in addition to his own compositions, which he interpreted with Ben Monder , Eivind Opsvik and Nasheet Waits . In his trio Tamarindo in 2012 he played with William Parker and Nasheet Waits and Mark Ferber . In 2014 he presented the album Somos Agua . Malaby lives in New Jersey. In 2017 he released the album New Artifacts on Clean Feed Records with Mat Maneri and Daniel Levin . In the field of jazz, he was involved in 140 recording sessions between 19792 and 2019, according to Tom Lord .

Discographic notes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Interview (2014)
  2. Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 10, 2019)