''Baida'' is an album by trumpeter

Ralph Alessi Ralph Alessi (born March 5, 1963) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and ECM recording artist. Alessi is known as a virtuosic performer whose critically-acclaimed projects include his Baida Quartet, with Jason Moran, Drew Gress, and Nashee ...

recorded in 2012 and released on the ECM label.ECM discography
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Reception

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'', commented: "occasionally the whole set sounds eerily like the mid-60s

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quintet reinvented as a shyly slinky, contemporary-cool-jazz tribute".Fordham, J
The Guardian Review
October 4, 2013

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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".Kelman, J
All About Jazz review
September 14, 2013

Track listing

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

Personnel

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

Jason Moran Jason Moran may refer to: * Jason Moran (criminal) (1967–2003), Australian mobster * Jason Moran (musician) Jason Moran (born January 21, 1975) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator involved in multimedia art and theatrical inst ...

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piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

Drew Gress Drew Gress (born November 20, 1959) is an American jazz double-bassist and composer born in Trenton, New Jersey and raised in the Philadelphia area. Biography Gress studied at Towson State University and Manhattan School of Music. In the late 1 ...

double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

Nasheet Waits Nasheet Waits is an American jazz drummer. Son of percussionist Freddie Waits, Nasheet Waits is a New York native who has been active on the jazz scene since early in his life. Before pursuing a music career, he studied psychology and history a ...

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

References

{{Authority control ECM Records albums Ralph Alessi albums 2013 albums Albums produced by Manfred Eicher