Baida (Ralph Alessi album)

Baida
Studio album by
Ralph Alessi
ReleasedSeptember 10, 2013
RecordedOctober 2012
StudioAvatar, New York City
GenreJazz
Length59:12
LabelECM 2321
ProducerManfred Eicher
Ralph Alessi chronology
Only Many
(2013) 		Baida
(2013)

Baida is an album by trumpeter Ralph Alessi recorded in October 2012 and released on ECM September the following year. The quartet features rhythm section Jason Moran, Drew Gress and Nasheet Waits.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Guardian[2]

John Fordham, writing for The Guardian, commented, "occasionally the whole set sounds eerily like the mid-60s Miles Davis quintet reinvented as a shyly slinky, contemporary-cool-jazz tribute."[2]

All About Jazz correspondent John Kelman commented "More open, more translucent and somehow more intrinsically pure, Baida welcomes Alessi to a label whose instinctive ability to find and draw out good music where it lives remains both unparalleled and fundamental to its ongoing success and reputation."[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Ralph Alessi

  1. "Baida" - 5:24
  2. "Chuck Barris" - 7:36
  3. "Gobble Goblins" - 4:04
  4. "In-Flight Entertainment" - 4:35
  5. "Sanity" - 4:46
  6. "Maria Lydia" - 5:46
  7. "Shank" - 4:44
  8. "I Go, You Go" - 6:13
  9. "Throwing Like a Girl" - 5:35
  10. "11/1/10" - 6:08
  11. "Baida (Reprise)" - 3:32

Personnel

References

  1. ^ ECM discography Archived 2013-12-19 at the Wayback Machine accessed December 19, 2013
  2. ^ a b Fordham, J. The Guardian Review, October 4, 2013
  3. ^ Kelman, J. All About Jazz review, September 14, 2013