Celebrate Ralph Alessi Part 1
Ralph Alessi is a trumpet player that I like a lot who is on some really great records these days. I am really gaining an appreciation for the trumpet as an instrument. To my ears, the saxaphone can sound so honking and aggressive and overpowering in a group. The trumpet, on the other hand, has a very mild sound as far as horns go. There are a handful of trumpet players at present who make really listenable lovely records. At the top of my list right now of favorite trumpet players, there is: Ambrose Akinmusire, Tomasz Stanko and Ralph Alessi. Marc Copland is a pianist composer and his music is what I like to call classy old man jazz. No boundaries are being broken here. This record is thoroughly not avant-guard. This record is very listenable and very relaxing and very tasty.
_Alibi