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Ralph Alessi

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    December 28, 2011

    Sam Rivers, R.I.P.

    A Spotify playlist of Sam Rivers' work is here. Jazz composer, multi-instrumentalist, and organizer Sam Rivers died of pneumonia on December 26. Rivers' importance to the American jazz avant-garde extended beyond his recordings and performances. In his demonstration of artistic self-reliance and co ... More >>

  • Music

    December 21, 2011

    Up-and-Coming Players from 2011, the Year of the Tenor

    A Spotify playlist of Sam Rivers' work is here. Jazz composer, multi-instrumentalist, and organizer Sam Rivers died of pneumonia on December 26. Rivers' importance to the American jazz avant-garde extended beyond his recordings and performances. In his demonstration of artistic self-reliance and co ... More >>

  • Music

    May 11, 2011

    Jazz Consumer Guide: Pure Joy and Hard Work

    Saxophonists get up to mischief (and engage in a little drama)

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    Full Undead Jazzfest Lineup Announced, Dismayingly Short On Actual Zombies

    Roswell Rudd has my favorite of the snapshots collected here​Early January's Winter Jazzfest, a two-night, multi-venue fete that lured thousands of folks into Greenwich Village to see dozens of downtown-jazz stalwarts (Voice poll darlings Vijay Iyer and Darcy James Argue were among the star at ... More >>

  • Music

    December 29, 2009

    2009 Jazz Poll: Tom Hull's Alternate, Unsettled Top 10

    Great jazz records we caught, with apologies to those we missed

  • Music

    August 18, 2009

    Jazz Consumer Guide: A Summer Suite of Harmonic Disorder

    Transcending roots and relishing every moment, whether you've got the rhythm section or not

  • Voice Choices

    August 4, 2009

    SIM Faculty Concert

    Transcending roots and relishing every moment, whether you've got the rhythm section or not

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    Shows This Weekend: TV on the Radio in Central Park, Hangover-Obliterating Techno, and Alcoholic-Chef Competitions

    Friday Noted Björk collaborators the Dirty Projectors join 2008 Pazz & Jop winners TV on the Radio in Central Park Friday night to benefit this year's free Central Park SummerStage slate. Beware of projectile vomiting at Webster Hall; Chromeo's Dave 1 is DJing tonight. Trumpet virtuoso Ralph Ale ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 18, 2009

    Rudy Royston 303 Sextet

    Friday Noted Björk collaborators the Dirty Projectors join 2008 Pazz & Jop winners TV on the Radio in Central Park Friday night to benefit this year's free Central Park SummerStage slate. Beware of projectile vomiting at Webster Hall; Chromeo's Dave 1 is DJing tonight. Trumpet virtuoso Ralph Ale ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 7, 2009

    The Fred Hersch Trio+2

    Friday Noted Björk collaborators the Dirty Projectors join 2008 Pazz & Jop winners TV on the Radio in Central Park Friday night to benefit this year's free Central Park SummerStage slate. Beware of projectile vomiting at Webster Hall; Chromeo's Dave 1 is DJing tonight. Trumpet virtuoso Ralph Ale ... More >>

  • Music

    March 20, 2007

    All Things Close Enough

    Some of today's best jazz strikes purists as not sounding like jazz at all

  • Music

    January 18, 2005

    Old School

    Two approaches to the dawning problem of expanding jazz repertoire, one of them novel

  • Music

    November 13, 2001

    All Around the Town

    Uri Caine at the Turn of Another Century

  • Music

    June 20, 2000

    Saved by the Classics

    Bell Meets (Is?) Big Brother

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