Jazz Articles about Sean Ali

About Sean Ali

Album Review

Sean Ali: Quartets For Plucked Strings

Read "Quartets For Plucked Strings" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
July 31, 2025

Listening to Quartets for Plucked Strings without knowing its backstory poses no obstacle. The music invites you to follow your imagination. Sean Ali, best known as a bassist, composer, and improviser, shifts focus on this release, trading his acoustic bass for three mandolins and a steel-string acoustic guitar. While his previous solo effort, A Blink in the Sun (Neither/Nor Records, 2021), highlighted the bass in exploratory detail, this new project adopts a multitracked ensemble approach--Ali becoming his own quartet. Composition ...

Album Review

Sean Ali: My Tongue Crumbles After

Read "My Tongue Crumbles After" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
April 1, 2017

Improvisational bassist Sean Ali began his musical life as a guitarist, studying sitar and oud along the way. The Ohio native has been in New York City for more than a decade now and performs as a solo bassist, an ensemble player, and a spoken-word artist. He is the founder of The Mudbath Orchestra, a large ensemble that has been performing in and around NYC since 2011. My Tongue Crumbles After is Ali's solo bass debut album and features eight ...