Ralph Alessi - Baida (2013)

ECM Records: ECM 2321/372 5304
http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/2300/2321.php
http://player.ecmrecords.com/ralph-alessi--baida

* Ralph Alessi: trumpet
* Jason Moran: piano
* Drew Gress: double bass
* Nasheet Waits: drums

http://www.ralphalessi.com/
http://www.jasonmoran.com/
http://www.drewgress.com/
http://www.nasheetwaits.com/

Recorded on October 2012 at Avatar Studios, New York.
Engineer: James A. Farber.


Reviews
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By John Fordham
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/03/ralph-alessi-baida-review

New York trumpeter Ralph Alessi has long been a fixture on the jazz scene,
thanks to his inventive work with employers such as Steve Coleman, Ravi
Coltrane and Uri Caine. But his ECM debut as bandleader, with the superb trio
of Jason Moran (piano), Drew Gress (bass) and Nasheet Waits (drums) shows how
much more there is to him without disrupting his particular eloquent calm. On
these 10 pieces he sounds quietly wired and fascinated by what his partners are
firing at him, while not remotely detached from his signature virtues of tonal
purity and unflustered invention. All the pieces are his, from the initially
free-fluttering title track with its soft trumpet doodles over slow-moving
piano and percussion, through the delicately prancing Chuck Barris, to the
weaving Throwing Like a Girl with its shivery snare-drum tattoo and prodding
piano lines. Moran is as attuned to his surroundings as ever, Gress and Waits
keep the pressure up but not the volume, and occasionally the whole set sounds
eerily like the mid-60s Miles Davis quintet reinvented as a shyly slinky,
contemporary-cool-jazz tribute.


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By John Kelman
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/baida-ralph-alessi-ecm-records-review-by-john-kelman.php

By S. Victor Aaron
http://somethingelsereviews.com/2013/09/02/ralph-alessi-baida-2013/

Di Elfio Nicolosi (it)

Par Michel Contat (fr)
http://www.telerama.fr/musiques/baida,104778.php

Por Jesús Gonzalo (es)
http://www.jazzitis.com/web/content/baida