Baida (Ralph Alessi album)

Reception

The Guardian's John Fordham noted "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