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Ralph Alessi
Ralph Alessi is credited on 110 releases across 53 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1983–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
110
Pressings credited
53
Albums
5
Decades active
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In collections
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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Credited work
110 releases · 53 albums · active 1983–2025
- Performance · 184
- Other credits · 7
- Production · 4
- Engineering · 3
Studios: Systems Two · Avatar Studios · Artesuono Recording Studio · Bauer Studios Ludwigsburg
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Ravi Coltrane
- Steve Coleman
- Steve Coleman And Metrics
- Steve Coleman And The Mystic Rhythm Society
- Various
- Michael Cain
- The Uri Caine Ensemble
- Steve Coleman And Five Elements
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