Ralph Alessi
Biography
Ralph Alessi (born March 5, 1963) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and ECM recording artist. Alessi is known as a virtuosic performer whose critically-acclaimed projects include his Baida Quartet, with Jason Moran, Drew Gress, and Nasheet Waits, and This Against That, his quintet with Andy Milne, Gress, Mark Ferber, and Ravi Coltrane. Alessi has also recorded and performed with artists including Steve Coleman, Uri Caine, Fred Hersch, and Don Byron. Alessi is known for his work as an educator, and in 2001 he founded the School for Improvisational Music in Brooklyn, New York. He has taught at the Eastman School of Music, NYU, NEC, the University of Nevada, Reno, Siena Jazz University, and University of the Arts Bern.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
218 releases · 53 albums · active 1983–2025
- Performance · 375
- Other credits · 18
- Production · 8
- Engineering · 3
Studios: Systems Two · Sear Sound · Artesuono Recording Studio · Avatar Studios
Frequent collaborators
- Ravi Coltrane
- Steve Coleman And The Mystic Rhythm Society
- Scott Colley
- Steve Coleman
- Sam Rivers' Rivbea All-star Orchestra
- Steve Coleman And Metrics
- Don Byron
- Drew Gress