Like the angelic blast of Gabriel's horn, trumpeter Ralph Alessi plays his mortal trumpet with exhilaration and sublime finesse. A popular session player, he has heightened recordings like Scott ...

The first duo recording from pianist Francesca Han and trumpeter Ralph Alessi has been a while coming, the pair first having met in New York in 2011. Shortly thereafter, Han left the Big Apple—closing ...

Music runs deep in the DNA of Ralph Alessi. His grandfather was the co-principal trumpeter in New York’s Metropolitan Opera, while his father played trumpet in the same orchestra and his mother was ...

Trumpeter Ralph Alessi, a graduate of CalArts, has spent the past decade establishing himself as a regular participant in New York City’s contemporary jazz scene. Working with such established artists ...

ECM recording artist and trumpeter Ralph Alessi blew into town with his superlative NYC quartet on Feb. 25 -- featuring pianist David Virelles, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Gerald Cleaver -- to ...

Dizzy Gillespie wanted to shake jazz up around 1945; Ralph Alessi wants to again. Gillespie delivered his message like a comic; Alessi does it like a scientist. The austere mood at Disney Hall’s ...

Ralph Alessi is an avant-gardist who’s not afraid of beauty. As the jazz trumpeter led his This Against That quintet at Towson University Thursday, he was willing to go anywhere the music led him, ...

Ralph Alessi's Baida Quartet: Raised in San Rafael, trumpeter Ralph Alessi hails from an illustrious Bay Area musical family. He's been a major figure on the New York jazz scene for two decades, and ...

Ralph Alessi has never had a problem with precision or grappled publicly with the mechanics of his art. His trumpet tone conveys a rounded luminescence, like the moon in full phase, and his technique ...

Ralph Alessi’s latest effort, Look, is his most accessible work to date. A bit of a departure for the trumpeter, the album — which also features Ravi Coltrane (son of John Coltrane) on tenor sax and ...

Tasty trumpeter Ralph Alessi has come to be known as a forward-thinking band leader that is keeping modern jazz modern. The accomplished band leader, composer, improviser, and educator has called on ...