Jazz Articles about Ralph Alessi

About Ralph Alessi

Album Review

Two of the inaugural three releases on RKM Music rely on the talents of Ralph Alessi, which all things considered bodes very well for the new label. The three letters in the label's name embody the first initials of executive producer Ravi Coltrane, his wife Kathleen Hennessy, and reedman Michael McGinnis. But their stated goal is to place control over recording solely in the hands of the artists.

Vice & Virtue proudly displays the talents of drummer Shane Endsley alongside ...

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Album Review

Ralph Alessi: This Against That/Vice & Virtue

Read "This Against That/Vice & Virtue" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 7, 2002

It's time for trumpeter Ralph Alessi to step out from his role as a sideman and flex his muscular jazz talents.

Originally from the West Coast and trained at the California Institute For The Arts, Alessi moved to New York to find plenty of work in diverse bands led by Ravi Coltrane, Sam Rivers, Uri Caine, and Steve Coleman. From Coleman's M-BASE neo-funk, to Uri Caine's reworking of Mahler and Bach, and the outward looking Rivers he was ...