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Album

Baida

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Baida; Chuck Barris; Gobble Goblins; In-Flight Entertainment; Sanity; Maria Lydia; Shankl; I Go, You Go; Throwing Like a Girl; 11/1/10; Baida (reprise).

Album

Only Many

By Ralph Alessi

Label: CAM Jazz
Released: 2013
Track listing: 1. Ride; 2. Hands; 3. San Francisco Holiday; 4. Peering; 5. Humdrum; 6. The Cadence They Create; 7. Calder; 8. Only Many; 9. Campbell; 10. St Dog; 11. Floating Head Syndrome; 12. Blue Midnight; 13. Someone Digging in the Ground; 14. Snap.

Album

Spun Tree

By Ralph Alessi

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: 01. Bad Lucid; 02. Question Eight; 03. No's No; 04. Calendar Song; 05. Subway Fish Knit; 06. Arc-en-ciel; 07. Ghost Practice; 08. Spun Tree. Tutte le composizioni sono di Michaël Attias.

Article: Album Review

Ralph Alessi - Fred Hersch: Only Many

Read "Only Many" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 14, 2013

Il titolo del CD rispecchia l'essenza musicale dei due musicisti, qui riuniti dopo la comune militanza nel quintetto di Hersch. Infinite sono le possibilità espressive messe in campo per intrecciare un dialogo lirico e notturno, che tende prevalentemente all'astrazione puntillistica. Prevale il gusto del frammento, per ricondurre all'essenziale il percorso sonoro con un linguaggio che tende ...

Article: Interview

"Baida": Ralph Alessi ci racconta il suo nuovo disco per la ECM

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 14, 2013

Trombettista schivo, ma con le idee sempre chiare -supportate da un talento cristallino -Ralph Alessi sbarca in casa ECM con un disco che potrebbe riuscire nel sempre più difficile intento di piacere, come si diceva una volta, “a critica e pubblico," agli ascoltatori in cerca di suoni coraggiosi come a quelli più legati alla tradizione.

Article: Album Review

Aaron Parks: Arborescence

Read "Arborescence" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
October 13, 2013

Slowly but surely, over the past several years, ECM Records has forged relationships with some of New York City's most impressive musicians--no mean feat given that, despite the Big Apple no longer being the jazz mecca it once was, it certainly remains a lightning rod for some of the world's most creative musicians, ranging from trumpeter ...

News: Education

Renowned Trumpeter Ralph Alessi And Saxophonist Brian Levy Join New England Conservatory Jazz Studies Faculty

October 8, 2013

New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies Department has hired two renowned musicians to join the faculty: jazz trumpeter/composer Ralph Alessi who will teach trumpet and improvisation and jazz saxophonist Brian Levy who will teach both saxophone and music history and musicology. “I’m thrilled that Ralph Alessi has agreed to join our faculty,” said Ken Schaphorst, Chair of ...

Article: Album Review

Ralph Alessi: Baida

by John Kelman
September 14, 2013

With 2013 heading into fall, it's a good time to take stock of a label that has all too often been (falsely) accused of minimizing the country where jazz began. Excluding reissues, this year's ECM regular series releases represent about thirty percent American leadership; given jazz's increasingly global nature, hardly a bad number--and better still, when ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Fred Hersch and Julian Lage: Free Flying

by Victor L. Schermer
August 29, 2013

This album is the latest of several recordings in which pianist Fred Hersch solos or joins forces with some highly intelligent, advanced musicians to provide jazz renditions with a sophisticated, chamber music quality. Others are Hersch's Alone at the Vanguard (Palmetto, 2011); Leaves of Grass (Palmetto, 2005)--an ensemble composition based on Walt Whitman's poems--and two additional ...

Article: Live Review

Jazz on a Summer's Day 2013

by Phillip Woolever
August 16, 2013

Jazz on a Summer's DayKrefeld, GermanyJuly 13, 2013 The setting was historic, on the grounds of a 12th century castle. The program tilted toward tomorrow, with an ear for the future. That picturesque, present day progression made the 29th Jazz on a Summer's Day a timeless musical present for devoted fans in ...