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Ralph Alessi

 

Jazz trumpeter and composer Ralph Alessi is the founder and director of the School for Improvisational Music and an ECM recording artist. He speaks to Soundboard producer/host Ben Finane — Editor in Chief at Steinway’s award-winning online music magazine listenmusicculture.com — about the practice of improvisation and the art of jazz.

‘There are two parts to playing: there’s the practicing and then there’s the doing it. So when you’re doing it, you can’t wish that you knew something better.... You work with what you have — right then.’

 



Photos: John Rogers (left); Jessica Wynne

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