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	RALPH ALESSI Ralph Alessi - trumpet Tony Malaby - saxophone Drew Gress - double bass Andy Milne - piano Mark Ferber - drums Since 1991, trumpeter/composer/educator Ralph Alessi has been an active member of the New York jazz and improvised music scene as both sideman and leader. Called “...a highly-in-demand, adventurous virtuoso who can handle just about anything” (L.A. Weekly), Alessi has performed and recorded with the likes of Steve Coleman, Uri Caine, Don Byron, Ravi Coltrane, Sam Rivers, Drew Gress, Fred Hersch and many other of the great innovators in improvised music. As a leader, Alessi has four recordings to his name: Hissy Fit, Vice Virtue, This Against That (voted one of the top ten records of 2002 by Jazz Times) and the recently released, Look featuring his band, This Against That. In the coming year he will release two more recordings, one being a quartet project featuring Jason Moran. As an educator, Alessi has been a member of the faculties at Five Towns College and the Eastman School of Music. He is currently the founder and director of the School for Improvisational Music, a non-profit entity currently holding improvisational music workshops in Brooklyn. Since 2002, he has been on the jazz faculty at New York University. REVIEWS " ... Alessi is a modernist who uses expanded forms, complex rhythms and a broad harmonic spectrum to explore the confluence of composition and improvisation. But the music also flows from tradition and has strong melodies... " Sean Patrick Fitzell " ... LOOK is an hour’s worth of wonderfully warm, human music. Intelligent, entertaining, stimulating... ” Dave Wayne, jazzreview.com " ... Alessi speaks in a language all his own ..." John Ephland, Downbeat " ... Alessi, a trumpet player with modern sensibilities, uses his impressive technique, round sound and adventurous writing to great effect at every instnace of his latest record, LOOK... " Dan Bilawsky, Jazz Improv Magazine [ go Back ] [ go Home ] [ go Top] [ login media ]