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Jazz Now: Ralph Alessi Quartet

18/04/2016

Ralph Alessi Quartet

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz Now, Ralph Alessi Quartet

Soweto Kinch presents the Ralph Alessi Quartet in concert at the Pizza Express Jazz Club.

Soweto Kinch presents a set performed at London's Pizza Express Jazz Club by the Ralph Alessi Quartet. Plus former Weather Report drummer Peter Erskine in conversation.

Trumpeter Ralph Alessi is fast being hailed as one of the brightest emerging talents in the USA. His new quartet with Gary Versace (piano), Drew Gress (bass) and Nasheet Waits (drums) makes its only 2016 UK appearance at London's Pizza Express, launching the group's new CD "Quiver" with music from this album and its predecessor, "Baida". Soweto Kinch meets the band members and talks to Ralph about finding a distinctive musical voice in today's crowded jazz scene. He's also joined by Peter Erskine, legendary drummer with Weather Report, who has just produced and released for the first time a compilation of the band's live concerts. And Soweto also looks forward to next month's televised final of the BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year with 2014 winner Alex Bone and leader of the backing trio, Gwilym Simcock.

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