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Tony Barba is a recent addition to Chicago after living in New York City for the last decade. Graduating in 2001 from the NYU jazz department, Barba studied saxophone with such notables as George Garzone and Ralph Lalama. SInce then, Tony has performed in the United States, Europe, Canada, Asia and Africa with such artists as Andrew Hill, Josh Ritter, Escort, Tony Malaby, Ben Monder, David Murray, Angelica Sanchez, Al Vizutti, Tony Scherr, Steven Bernstein, Ellery Eskelin, Shane Endsley, the Violent Femmes, Pete Yorn, Antibalis, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. From 2001 until 2010, Tony led and self-released two albums with his funk band the Barbarian Horde, which featured many of Brooklyn's finest musicians. Tony made the move from New York City to Chicago in the fall of 2010 and has been making a steady impact on the city's music scene ever since. He can currently be heard performing with The Youngblood Brass Band, the Brooklyn Qawwali Party, W.W. Lowman, the B.S. Brass Band and Donovan Mixon's Hybrid Project. Tony is also the leader of his own trio which is releasing it's first full length album "Facetime" in May of 2012 on Layered Records.

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Kenny Reichert: Deep Breath

Read "Deep Breath" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


Kenny Reichert is a jny:Chicago-based guitarist of broad background, Berklee training, and wide-ranging tastes in pop and jazz. He has self-released one studio album, Interpretations (2015). Reichert records mostly originals. If you are looking for influences, “Spears" (a play on “Sphere"?) sounds Thelonious Sphere Monk-ish enough, with plenty of solo space for saxophonist Tony Barba woven in. Barba can hold his own with anyone. Reichert does not shy away from vocals either. His lyricist and singer is Alyssa ...

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Tony Barba: Blood Moon

Read "Blood Moon" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann


Madison-based saxophonist Tony Barba is a sonic chameleon, able to wrap catchy melodic themes around a variety of different genres. His ear for melodies is on full display on his newest outing for the Midwestern label Shifting Paradigm Records. In interplay with Chicagoan guitarist Matt Gold and the Madison-based rhythm section of John Christensen on bass and Devin Drobka on drums, Blood Moon sees Barba drawing from reggae as much as from pop and country, together interpreted with jazzy sensibilities ...

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Tony Barba's New Album Facetime Now Available!

Tony Barba's New Album Facetime Now Available!

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Facetime is now available through Layered Records. This Rock/Jazz trio features Tony Barba on tenor sax and bansuri, Patrick Mulcahy on electric bass, and Conor Elmes on drums. From Layered's website: A veteran NYC saxophonist/composer now residing in Chicago, Tony Barba has leapt between improvised music, punk rock, jazz (or pretty much anything that can be honked out through a saxophone) and somehow landed on the sound for his new trio's album, Facetime. The record is an amped up romp, ...

Saxist Tony Barba heads up a butt-kicking trio with bassist Patrick Mulcahy and drummer Conor Elmes. As heard on the new Facetime full-length, the band welds free-jazzy abandon to a massive (and massively funky) rock-inspired low end. Three sophisticated local groove purveyors set the stage. -TimeOut, NYC 6/2012

The tenor saxophonist Tony Barba emanates an amiable extroversion in his music, drawing on a world of sources. -Nate Chinen, NY Times 1/2009

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Deep Breath

Shifting Paradigm Records
2023

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Blood Moon

Shifting Paradigm Records
2020

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Walk the Walk

Shifting Paradigm Records
2018

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Facetime

Unknown label
2012

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Crash Landing

From: Facetime
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