Ralph Alessi

Ralph Alessi (born 1963^[1] in San Francisco, California^[2]) is a jazz trumpeter and composer originally from San Rafael, California, probably better known for being a member of bands led by saxophonist Steve Coleman. He has also performed with a host of others musicians, including Uri Caine, Ravi Coltrane, Fred Hersch and Don Byron, among others.[Ralph Alessi at All Music Guide] Alessi is also the founder and director of the School for Improvisational Music and is on faculty at New York University and New England Conservatory.

Select discography

• Baida (2013, ECM)
• Only Many (2013, CAMJazz)
• Wiry Strong (2011, CleanFeed)
• Cognitive Dissonance (2010, CAMJazz)
• Open Season (2009, RKM Records)
• Look (2007, Between the Lines Records)
• Vice & Virtue (2002, RKM Records)
• This Against That (2002, RKM)
• Hissy Fit (1999, Love Slave Records)

With Michael Cain

• Circa (ECM, 1996)

With Uri Caine

• The Othello Syndrome (Winter & Winter, 2009)

References

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