Baida (Ralph Alessi album)

Baida is an album by trumpeter Ralph Alessi recorded in October 2012 and released on ECM September the following year. The quartet features rhythm section Jason Moran, Drew Gress and Nasheet Waits.

Reception
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."

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."

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