Tony Malaby (born January 12, 1964, in Tucson, Arizona) is an American tenor and soprano saxophonist who has been based in New York City since the mid-1990s. He built his reputation as a sideman with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra and Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band, and became a central figure in New York's downtown improvised music scene. As a bandleader he runs several distinct projects - from the Tamarindo trio to the unconventional Tubacello quartet - and holds a position as Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Malaby performed in March 2025 in Paris with guitarist Marc Ducret, bassist Stéphane Kerecki and drummer Daniel Humair in jazz club Sunside.
JazzTimes published an extensive profile about Malaby's working methods and his latest projects in September 2024.
Malaby debuted in June 2024 with his new septet FIREBATH at The Jazz Gallery in New York, featuring among others Ben Monder, Angelica Sanchez and Mark Helias.
The album Continental Divide was released in 2024 on Kreating SounD, recorded with the quartet Malaby Reed Smiley Coulter.
The Cave of Winds, recorded with the reunited Sabino quartet (Ben Monder, Michael Formanek, Tom Rainey), was released in January 2022 on Pyroclastic Records.
