TONY MALAB'S APPARITIONS Plays Cornelia Street Cafe

CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ, located at 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York 212-989-9319
http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village
1 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, V, F to West 4th St. announces Thu Sep 02 

8:30PM TONY MALABY'S APPARITIONS
(Tony Malaby, tenor saxophone; Drew Gress, bass; Tom Rainey, drums; John Hollenbeck, drums)
Tony Malaby's Apparitions featuring two drummers - Tom Rainey and Mike Sarin - along with a bassist, Drew Gress.
....."The process began a couple of years ago when he performed several times with two drummers and loved it: "It's just the most comfortable couch, or like taking a warm bath, just being surrounded by that sound and falling into it." He soon knew who the band was going be; having played together a lot in various other combinations, they already had a shared vocabulary to build on. They worked with Tony's structural concepts more than with written-out compositions: "I decided to try to create platforms for my favorite 'zones' that we'd developed or would hit on. So for example, a multi-layered zone where the four of us are each playing in our own pulse or dimension in time, or a very transparent zone where it's cymbals/mallets/brushes and I'm playing flute-like and Drew's playing arco. And the question is: how am I going to get this into a composition, how am I going to structure it?"
- read more: http://www.tonymalaby.com/apparitions.htm
- listen: http://www.tonymalaby.com/mp3s/Apparitions.mp3
Cover $10 http://www.tonymalaby.com

Thu Sep 02
10:00PM TONY MALABY'S PALOMA RECIO
(Tony Malaby, tenor saxophone; Ben Monder, guitar; Eivind Opsvik, bass; Nasheet Waits, drums)
New music dedicated to an angel flying over the Iberian Peninsula by a quartet of omnidirectionally improvising masters of ecstatic lyrical elasticity.
Cover $10 http://www.tonymalaby.com

Fri Sep 03
9:00PM TONY MALABY'S APPARITIONS
(Tony Malaby, tenor saxophone; Drew Gress, bass; Tom Rainey, drums; John Hollenbeck, drums)
Tony Malaby's Apparitions featuring two drummers - Tom Rainey and Mike Sarin - along with a bassist, Drew Gress.
....."The process began a couple of years ago when he performed several times with two drummers and loved it: "It's just the most comfortable couch, or like taking a warm bath, just being surrounded by that sound and falling into it." He soon knew who the band was going be; having played together a lot in various other combinations, they already had a shared vocabulary to build on. They worked with Tony's structural concepts more than with written-out compositions: "I decided to try to create platforms for my favorite 'zones' that we'd developed or would hit on. So for example, a multi-layered zone where the four of us are each playing in our own pulse or dimension in time, or a very transparent zone where it's cymbals/mallets/brushes and I'm playing flute-like and Drew's playing arco. And the question is: how am I going to get this into a composition, how am I going to structure it?"
- read more: http://www.tonymalaby.com/apparitions.htm
- listen: http://www.tonymalaby.com/mp3s/Apparitions.mp3

Reservations Recommended
Cover $15 http://www.tonymalaby.com

Fri Sep 03
10:30PM TONY MALABY'S NOVELA
(Tony Malaby, tenor saxophone; Ralph Alessi, trumpet; Ben Gerstein, trombone; Dan Peck, tuba; Michael Attias, alto saxophone; Joachim Badenhorst, clarinet; Andrew Hadro, baritone saxophone; Kris Davis, piano; John Hollenbeck, drums; Tom Rainey, drums)
Later that night, Tony Malaby presented his New Group,Novela, with improvised or notated music as conducted by the pianist Kris Davis. In its collapsing of structure and intuition it had roots in some older experimental jazz - Roscoe Mitchell, Butch Morris - but it was still strong and strange, properly bewildering. Ben Ratlif, NY Times.
Reservations Recommended
Cover $15