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ALI RYERSON

www.aliryerson.com
alialto@aol.com

With a career spanning nearly five decades, jazz flutist Ali Ryerson has consistently
ranked among the top flutists in the Downbeat Jazz Poll for well over a decade. Born in
1952 in New York City, Ali grew up in a musical family. Her father, Art Ryerson, was a
renowned jazz guitarist who got his start with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, and later
became a top studio player in NYC, recording with everyone from Louis Armstrong, Erroll
Garner, Charlie Parker, and Sarah Vaughan, to Frank Sinatra. Ali Ryerson has carried on
the family tradition, becoming an international touring/recording artist, with
performances ranging from Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, to
the Blue Note (NYC and Japan), plus festival appearances worldwide. Ryerson has
released over two dozen albums on major jazz labels, including Concord
Records, DMP, Capri, and legendary jazz producer Bob Thiele’s final jazz label, Red
Baron. When Ryerson’s groundbreaking Jazz Flute Big Band released their
debut CD, Game Changer on Capri Records, the album hit the ‘TOP 10’ on the US
Jazz Charts for six straight weeks.
Ali has recorded and/or performed with jazz greats such as Red Rodney, Roy Haynes,
Kenny Barron, Frank Wess, Hubert Laws, Stephane Grappelli, Harold Danko, Art Farmer,
Mike Mainieri, Joe Beck, and Gene Bertoncini, as well as a recent guest appearance with
Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. She has also performed with
classical artists Julius Baker and Luciano Pavarotti (when she was principal flutist with the
Monterey Bay Orchestra). Ali was musical director of the Hudson River Regional Jazz
Festival (2001-’04), Jazz Chair for the National Flute Association, and founder of the NFA
Jazz Flute Big Band. As an educator and author, Ryerson published the widely
acclaimed Jazz Flute Practice Method, and conducts master classes worldwide. Ryerson is
a Gemeinhardt Artist with an Autograph Series of flutes by Gemeinhardt Musical
Instruments.
Ryerson's most recent invitations as guest artist include the Galway Flute Festival in
Switzerland, the International Flute Festival of Lima, Peru, the 60th Monterey Jazz
Festival, the New York Flute Club, the International Low Flute Festival, the University of
Michigan, Florida and MidAtlantic Flute conventions, the Rochester Flute Fair, the Chicago
Flute Fair, and invitations to tour Japan again in 2019 and 2020.

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