Ralph Alessi -trumpet
Craig Taborn -piano
Drew Gress -bass
Nasheet Waits -drums
Ralph Alessi and Baida Quartet will play new works along with pieces from their 2 releases on ECM records.
Ralph Alessi is a trumpet player/composer who splits his time between Brooklyn, NY and Bern, Switzerland. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area the son of classical trombone player, Joseph Alessi and opera singer, Maria Alessi. He received two degrees from California Institute for the Arts where he studied with Charlie Haden and James Newton. It was there that he met fellow student and future collaborators including Ravi Coltrane, Scott Colley, Michael Cain and others. In 1991, he moved to New York City and began a 30 year stay there in which he has played and recorded with the likes of Fred Hersch, Steve Coleman, Ravi Coltrane, Jason Moran, Sam Rivers, Tim Berne, Uri Caine and many others. Currently, Ralph records for the ECM record label and will be releasing a new CD in the spring of 2023. As an educator, he has taught at the Eastman School of Music, NYU and University of Nevada-Reno. He is also the founder/director of the School for Improvisational Music (SIM) and is a Jazz professor at the Hochschule der Künste Bern in Switzerland.