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At this moment Ralph Alessi is weaving some rad, gentle melodic lines with Ravi Coltrane on Ralph’s tune Oxide. Oh my, what a sound! Both Ralph and Ravi were students of mine back in the ’90’s when I was teaching at Cal Arts. The label of “students” for them is really absurd in that even back then they were tearing it up. Ralph plays trumpet and at Cal Arts he was doing graduate work playing electric bass. Ravi is John Coltrane’s son and he took the possibly frightening path of playing tenor sax right behind his dad. He’s pulled it off brilliantly with great playing and a beautiful human spirit. The music is from Ralph’s Imaginary Friends recording and Oxide is a magic trance dance through mysto frontiers. I dig it!
![]() PCP at Pt. Loma Nazarene University ![]() That’s Rebecca on the left and me on the right and leading up to the Pt. Loma Nazarene concert the two of us held a master class for the music students. Good kids for sure living the dream right at ocean’s edge.
![]() Beth Ross Buckley and PS.
![]() Have double neck, will travel. All right, over ’n out, gotta run, best, Peter |