Ralph Alessi - Imaginary Friends (TEASER) | ECM Records
Ralph Alessi
Imaginary Friends
Ralph Alessi: trumpet
Ravi Coltrane: tenor and sopranino saxophones
Andy Milne: piano
Drew Gress: double-bass
Mark Ferber: drums
ECM 2629
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Release: February 01, 2019
Trumpeter Ralph Alessi’s first two ECM albums as a leader – Baida (2013) and Quiver (2016) – justly earned him high praise. The New York Times lauded the “elegant precision and power” of Baida, while The Guardian extolled Quiver, pointing to the leader’s “flawless technique and ability to draw on jazz tradition while avoiding its clichés.” After those quartet discs, Alessi’s third ECM album, Imaginary Friends, presents him fronting a longtime working quintet in its first recording since 2010. Alessi’s bandmates include a kindred spirit in saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, a studio and stage partner of the trumpeter’s since they were students together at the California Institute of the Arts in the
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