Baida (Ralph Alessi album)

Baida is an album by trumpeter Ralph Alessi recorded in 2012 and released on the ECM label.[1]

Baida
Studio album by Ralph Alessi
Released	September 10, 2013
Recorded	October 2012, Avatar Studios, New York
Genre	Jazz
Length	59:12
Label	ECM ECM 2321
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Ralph Alessi chronology
Only Many (2013) Baida (2013)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
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

• Ralph Alessi - trumpet
• Jason Moran — piano
• Drew Gress - double bass
• Nasheet Waits - drums

References

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