JAZZ REVIEW : Joey Sellers’ Re-Creative Processes : The inventive trombonist constructs a new role for his instrument by stripping tunes to the bones, then reassembling them in his own image.

SPECIAL TO THE TIMES Trombonist Joey Sellers is ready to dismantle jazz. When his longtime associate Ken Filiano moved east, Sellers brought in upright master Michael Formanek from New York for his group’s featured appearance at the Alligator Lounge’s “New Music Mondays” series in October. * Davis, who’s worked with the likes of Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie and the New York Philharmonic, has plenty of “free jazz” experience, having recorded with John Coltrane on the tenor titan’s landmark, avant-garde experiment “Ascension.” Add tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby, who spent time with the Mingus Big Band Workshop, the repertory ensemble that has for the last few years played weekly at Greenwich Village’s Time Cafe, and you have a team as varied in personality as the crew of the Starship Enterprise. The quartet opened with a skewered version of Cole Porter’s “I Love You” that found Sellers and Malaby exchanging lines before joining with Davis and Mintz to hint at the familiar theme. The combo took Lee Konitz’s bop-meets-free-jazz exercise “Subconscious Lee” into the outer realms with Malaby’s anxious tenor improvisation leading the way.