


w/Booker T

w/Joey Arias and Brandon Seabrook, Joe's Pub, NYC 2019

w/Al Bell- legendary producer, songwriter, Stax Records co-founder

w/Sheila Jordan and Tracy Jordan, Birdland 2019

w/Alex Foster, Billy Drummond, Mark Whitfield, Vitoria Spain, 2018

w/Steve Cardenas and Rufus Reid

w/Ruby at The Grammys, NYC 2018



University of Maryland, Baltimore Band

The Easy Way (w/Steve Cardenas & Jaleel Shaw, 2017)

Think Free in Madeira, Portugal 2014
Think Free in Madeira, Portugal

Think Free at Green Mill, Chicago, 2016

Think Free in Portugal - Jeremy Pelt, Rudy Royston, Steve Cardenas

Ben Allison Testifies before US Congress, House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Ben Allison Testifies before US Congress, House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Also pictured David Israelite, CEO National Music Publishers Association. June, 2012

Ben on the steps of City Hall, NYC

Cambodian chapei master Kong Nay (also, Marc Ribot, Rudy Royston)

Ben and 4th-graders talk about improvisation, 2013

Think Free in Portugal (2014)
Interview on "Labor Press" AM970, NYC

w/Taylor Swift at MSR Studios, 2015
Taylor Swift and Ben Allison

At the Greenmail Jazz Club, Chicago (2014)

At The Epic Theater, Kalamazoo, MI with Steve Cardenas (2012)

With US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky

Be with students from the Music Department at the University of Alabama, with their Director Chris Kozak. Also pictured, Steve Cardenas, Brandon Seabrook and Rodney Green.

Somewhere outside of Milan c. 2009

Easy Way Trio

Think Free in Guadalajara, MX - Steve Cardenas, Mark Guiliana, Shane Endsley

Think Free in Guadalajara, MX - Steve Cardenas, Mark Guiliana, Shane Endsley


Allison Miller, Joey Arias, Ben @ NYC Summer Stage 2012

Steve and Ben duo at Town Hall, NYC
(Ben receives 2014 NYC Nightlife Award)


North Sea Jazz Festival

At Small's, NYC 2015

Easy Way Trio at Rubin Museum, NYC 2014

Man Size Safe with the Jazz Sinfonica Orchestra, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2008

Man Size Safe with the Jazz Sinfonica Orchestra, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2008
With maestro Joao Galindo

Joey Arias joins the band at Shapeshifter Lab, NYC 2016

At Jazz Standard c. 2009


Ben Allison Group at Birdland 2014
With Ted Nash, Jeremy Pelt, Steve Cardenas, Rudy Royston

The great Freddie Hubbard, May 2005

George Wein in the House
with unidentified friend of George's

Backstage with Greg Osby and Tom Harrell

Ben Allison Group at Birdland 2015
With Frank Kimbrough, Jeremy Pelt, Steve Cardenas, Rudy Royston

Grammys on the Hill 2012
With Elizabeth Healy, Rich Stumpf, Michael Whelan, Rep. Anita Lowey, Jennifer Blakeman & Linda Lorence.

Residency at UNC Chapel Hill
With Jim Ketch & a great group of students!

My 1965 Ampeg B15 fliptop
Can't get better than this....

The Band at Shapeshifter, NYC

The Amazing Lisa Fischer

Grammy Future Now, 2014
With Ryan Shaw, Jonatha Brooke, Erik Roberson, Elizabeth Healy

Somewhere in Mexico

Man Size Safe at Jazz Standard, NY c.2008

Ben Allison Quartet at Dizzys
With Peter Bernstein, Ted Nash & Matt Wilson

On Mexican Daytime Talkshow
Guadalajara, MX

Think Free at Teatro Degollado
Guadalajara, MX

At Dazzle, Denver

Press Conference for "Fair Play Fair Pay"
With Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Neil Portnow, Casandra Wilson, Rosanne Cash, Martha Reeves, Cindi Lauper, Elvis Costello, Nels Cline, Marc Ribot, Ray Parker, Jonatha Brooke

Martha Reeves & Gloria Gaynor

Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)
With Judy Tint

Backstage at Birdland, 2016
With Alli Miller, Joey Arias, Steve Cardenas, Michael Blake


Poster for "Fair Play Fair Pay"
Who's sigs can you find?

Greg Osby, Melissa Aldana, Lee Konitz, 2016

Dee Snider


Outside the Green Mill, Chicago, 2016
With Allan Mednard

Neil Portnow, Daryl Friedman
And unidentified man

Taylor Swift and My Family
Backstage, Metlife Stadium, 2015

Collective 20th Anniversary Poster, 2012


Grammy Town Hall, 2015

FIT, 2015

Mexico City, 2014

I wrote Mark Hamill a fan letter in 1977 and he sent this to me. I was king of "show and tell" for all of 6th grade.


Southbank Centre, London


Bernie Worrell left us too soon in 2016. Here we are after a set at Bonnaroo, 2012.






Riding the Nuclear Tiger

w/Hamid Drake and Michael Blake, Venice (2010?)

w/Joe Lovano, James Wideman, Milan Simich, Vincent Herring,




w/ the great Dewey Redman, Italy c. 2007

Receiving the Bird Award at North Sea Jazz Festival, c. 2005

My Mentor Joe Lovano
Ancona, Italy c. 2002

With Andrew Hill at the Jazz Journalists Awards 2003
One of my biggest influences

Bass sections rule!

Neutron Star

Peace Pipe in Cremona, c. 2002
Think Free at Dizzy's, 2016




































































































