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. His older brother Joseph Alessi is a classical trombonist.

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)
• Double Life (2013, Catwalk)
• Sugar Blade (2015, Babel)
• 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)
• Rhapsody in Blue (Winter & Winter, 2013)

With Jason Moran

• Artist in Residence (Blue Note, 2006)

With Don Byron

• You are #6 (Blue Note, 2001)
• Ivey Divey (Blue Note, 2006)

With James Carney

• Fables From The Aqueduct (1994, Jacaranda)
• Offset Rhapsody (1997, Jacaranda)

With Andy Milne

• Forward To Get Back (1997, D'Note)

With Lonnie Plaxico

• With All My Heart (1994, Muse)
• Emergence (2000, Savoy)

With David Gilmore

• Ritualism (2000, Kashka)

With Sam Rivers

• Culmination (1998, RCA)
• Inspiration (1999, RCA)

References