 Исполнитель: Ralph Alessi, Jason Moran, Nasheet Waits, Drew Gress Название альбома: Baida Год выпуска: 2013 Формат файлов: mp3 Размер архива: 135.60 Мб Скачать с: rusfolder.com
Ralph Alessi was born in San Francisco, the son of classical trumpeter Joe Alessi and opera singer Maria Leone. After taking degrees in jazz trumpet and bass – he studied under the legendary Charlie Haden at the California Institute for the Arts – he moved to New York City, where he soon became an ubiquitous presence on the downtown scene. As a leader, Alessi has forged a discography that includes Cognitive Dissonance (with Moran, Gress and Waits, 2010) and Vice & Virtue (2002), as well as three albums with his band This Against That: Wiry Strong (2011), Look (2007) and This Against That (2002); and two albums with his band Modular Theater: Open Season (2009) and Hissy Fit (1999). Among the critical acclaim for these releases, JazzTimes named This Against That’s debut one of the 10 best recordings of 2002. Cognitive Dissonance received a four-star review in DownBeat and was included in the year-end list of top-10 best recordings in The New Republic. Earlier this year, Alessi joined Fred Hersch to release the duo set Only Many. The trumpeter first recorded for ECM on pianist Michael Caine’s 2000 release, Circa.
As an educator, Alessi has helped shape an up-and-coming generation of jazz musicians since 2001 as founder-director of the School for Improvisational Music (www.schoolforimprov.org), a non-profit entity that holds workshops in New York City led by some of the most renowned improvisers from the jazz and contemporary-music fields. Alessi has also been on the jazz faculty of New York University since 2002.
Pianist Jason Moran – a long time Blue Note recording artist and one of America’s top young movers-and-shakers in music (receiving a MacArthur “Genius” Grant in 2010) – has appeared on four ECM albums with Charles Lloyd, including their 2012 duo release, Hagar’s Song. Moran also featured alongside Chris Potter on Paul Motian’s 2010 trio album Lost in a Dream, recorded live at the Village Vanguard. About Moran’s contribution to Baida, Alessi says: “Jason is so good at orchestrating the music. I give the band scores, so he knows everyone else’s parts and he jumps around, doubling melodies, playing countermelodies, orchestrating in an improvised way.”
As for Nasheet Waits – one of New York’s most creative drummers, who gives a deeply musical performance on Baida, always providing the sound of surprise as well as groove – he and Alessi first played together more than a decade ago as members of pianist Fred Hersch’s quintet. “Nasheet has this quality that I love in a musician, particularly drummers – he has this third eye, this intuitive way of playing the music,” Alessi says. “He can hear things before they happen and frame the music, especially on this record. He was constantly moving the music, moving it with ideas. Also, he is as fearless as they come as an improviser. One of my favorite moments on the record is those first sounds he makes on ‘Baida,’ and the space he leaves. One of the nice things about this album is that the music allows these musicians to play in a slightly different way – leaving space, allowing the music to ring and reverberate.”
Alessi has been playing with Drew Gress since they teamed in the late 1990s for one of pianist Uri Caine’s groups. “What I love about Drew’s playing are the choices he makes as a bass player – and the way he really understands the bass function,” the trumpeter says. “A lot of my pieces have bass lines that serve as melodies, sometimes ostinato things. He has no problem serving the music by playing those parts, although he always knows when he can open things up and take it to a different place. His ears are amazing, and he’s a great composer himself, so he brings that sensibility to the music.”
1. Baida
2. Chuck Barris
3. Gobble Goblins
4. In-Flight Entertainment
5. Sanity
6. Maria Lydia
7. Shank
8. I Go, You Go
9. Throwing Like a Girl
10. 11/1/10
11. Baida (Reprise)
Ralph Alessi -trumpet
Jason Moran - piano
Nasheet Waits - drums
Drew Gress - double bass
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