RALPH ALESSI QUINTET feat. RAVI COLTRANE

Ralph Alessi is a ‘rising star’ of the New York jazz scene. He is a classically trained and highly creative trumpet player that can be heard in groups (and on CD’s) of Don Byron, Uri Caine (the Mahler project), Sam Rivers, Fred Hersch and especially Steve Coleman (he is a sideman on six of his albums, including award winning CD, ‘The Sign and the Seal’.) Since the year 2000 he recorded under his own name with his bands Modular Theatre and This Against That, on which can also be found Don Byron and pianist Jason Moran. For his first European tour as a bandleader he invited special guest and ‘old’ friend Ravi Coltrane.