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Tony Malaby: tenor & soprano saxophones
Fred Lonberg-Holm: cello and electronics
John Hollenbeck: drums, marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel, melodica, small kitchen appliances

Editor's info:
In the five years since his previous release on Songlines (Apparitions, with Drew Gress, Tom Rainey and Michael Sarin), Tony Malaby has reconfirmed his position as one of New York’s most versatile and distinctive jazzmen. Whether as leader of several groups, or sideman with Mark Helias, Fred Hersch, Paul Motian and Charlie Haden among others, Malaby combines a broad and generous mastery of the whole jazz tradition with a true pathfinder’s spirit. In his Cello Trio he engages with two like-minded sonic explorers, the omni-dextrous New York drummer/percussionist John Hollenbeck and the genre-hopping Chicago cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, to create highly integrated, multi-faceted avant-jazz.

As members of the NY jazz elite, Hollenbeck and Malaby had often played together in different contexts, but neither had been in a group with Lonberg-Holm, whose studies with Morton Feldman and background in rock, noise, electronics, and the Chicago improv scene provided a refreshing stimulus to Tony: “I wanted to play with an instrument I really hadn’t improvised with a lot before, and I was also looking for somebody who could function in the bass role and who was going to bring a different kind of buoyancy to the feeling with the time and rhythm.”

Another aim was to work with pieces by other composers as well as his own, “pieces that delegate different responsibilities” to the players. “My compositions are really simple, so it’s just a matter of playing together, creating a relationship and learning, for example, how Fred interprets a written structure when John and I are improvising against that. Bill Frisell’s little-known “Waiting Inside” is one of Tony’s favorite ‘brooders,’ “and a really cool set of responsibilities: those chord changes played by John on melodica, and it has a unique structure.” There’s very little discus.......
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Editor's info:
In the five years since his previous release on Songlines (Apparitions, with Drew Gress, Tom Rainey and Michael Sarin), Tony Malaby has reconfirmed his position as one of New York’s most versatile and distinctive jazzmen. Whether as leader of several groups, or sideman with Mark Helias, Fred Hersch, Paul Motian and Charlie Haden among others, Malaby combines a broad and generous mastery of the whole jazz tradition with a true pathfinder’s spirit. In his Cello Trio he engages with two like-minded sonic explorers, the omni-dextrous New York drummer/percussionist John Hollenbeck and the genre-hopping Chicago cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, to create highly integrated, multi-faceted avant-jazz.

As members of the NY jazz elite, Hollenbeck and Malaby had often played together in different contexts, but neither had been in a group with Lonberg-Holm, whose studies with Morton Feldman and background in rock, noise, electronics, and the Chicago improv scene provided a refreshing stimulus to Tony: “I wanted to play with an instrument I really hadn’t improvised with a lot before, and I was also looking for somebody who could function in the bass role and who was going to bring a different kind of buoyancy to the feeling with the time and rhythm.”

Another aim was to work with pieces by other composers as well as his own, “pieces that delegate different responsibilities” to the players. “My compositions are really simple, so it’s just a matter of playing together, creating a relationship and learning, for example, how Fred interprets a written structure when John and I are improvising against that. Bill Frisell’s little-known “Waiting Inside” is one of Tony’s favorite ‘brooders,’ “and a really cool set of responsibilities: those chord changes played by John on melodica, and it has a unique structure.” There’s very little discus.......
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