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