Ralph Alessi

Ralph Alessi is a jazz trumpeter and composer who has worked with saxophonist Steve Coleman. He has also performed with Uri Caine, Ravi Coltrane, Fred Hersch and Don Byron.^[1]

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

• Hissy Fit (1999, Love Slave)
• This Against That (2002, RKM)
• Vice & Virtue (2002, RKM)
• Look (2007, Between the Lines)
• Open Season (2009, RKM)
• Cognitive Dissonance (2010, CAM Jazz)
• Wiry Strong (2011, Clean Feed)
• Only Many (2013, CAM Jazz)
• Baida (2013, ECM)
• Quiver (2016, ECM)

With Michael Cain

• Circa (ECM, 1996)

With Uri Caine

• The Sidewalks of New York: Tin Pan Alley (Winter & Winter, 1999)
• Gustav Mahler in Toblach (Winter & Winter, 1999)
• The Goldberg Variations (Winter & Winter, 2000)
• Gustav Mahler: Dark Flame (Winter & Winter, 2003)
• Shelf-Life (Winter & Winter, 2005)
• Uri Caine Ensemble Plays Mozart (Winter & Winter, 2006)
• The Othello Syndrome (Winter & Winter, 2009)

References