Ben Allison is an American

United States

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 jazz

Jazz

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 double bass

Double bass

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ist and composer born in New Haven

New Haven, Connecticut

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, Connecticut

Connecticut

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His groups include The Ben Allison Band, Peace Pipe, the Ben Allison Quartet, Medicine Wheel, the Kush Trio, Man Size Safe, and the Herbie Nichols

Herbie Nichols

Herbie Nichols , was an American jazz pianist and composer who wrote the jazz standard "Lady Sings the Blues". Obscure during his lifetime, he is now highly regarded by many musicians and critics.-Life:...

 Project (which he co-leads with pianist Frank Kimbrough

Frank Kimbrough

Frank Kimbrough is a post-bop jazz pianist born and raised in North Carolina. He did some work at Chapel Hill before moving to Washington, D. C. in 1980....

). At the age of 25 he formed the Jazz Composers Collective, a New York City nonprofit organization, serving as that organization's Artistic Director and as a Composer-in-Residence.

Discography (Leader)

• Seven Arrows (Koch Records
  Koch Records
  E1 Music , the primary subsidiary of E1 Entertainment LP, is the largest independent record label in the United States. It is also distributed by the Universal Music Group in Europe under the name E1 Universal...
  
  , 1995)
• Medicine Wheel (Palmetto Records
  Palmetto Records
  Palmetto Records is an independent American jazz record label founded in 1990 by Matt Balitsaris. -Artists:*Ben Allison*Lili Anel*Matt Wilson*Fred Hersch*Ted Nash*Bill Mays*Larry Goldings*David Berkman*Dr...
  
  , 1998)
• Third Eye (Palmetto, 1999)
• Riding the Nuclear Tiger (Palmetto, 2001)
• Peace Pipe (Palmetto, 2002)
• Buzz (Palmetto, 2004)
• Cowboy Justice (Palmetto, 2006)
• Little Things Run the World (Palmetto, 2008)
• Think Free (Palmetto, 2009)
• Action-Refraction (Palmetto, 2011)

Discography (Sideman, partial list)

• Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra, We Are MTO (Sunny Side, 2008)
• Ron Horton, It’s a Gadget World (ABeat, 2007)
• Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra, Vol. 1 (Sunny Side, 2006)
• Michael Blake Trio, Right Before Your Very Ears (Clean Feed, 2005)
• Frank Kimbrough, Lulluabluebye (Palmetto, 2004)
• Ron Horton, Subtextures (Fresh Sounds New Talent, 2003)
• Ted Nash, Still Evolved (Palmetto, 2003)
• Tom Christensen, Paths (Playscape, 2002)
• The Herbie Nichols Project, Strange City (Palmetto, 2001)
• Ted Nash Double Quartet, Rhyme & Reason (Arabesque, 1999)
• The Herbie Nichols Project, Dr. Cyclop's Dream (Soul Note, 1999)
• Ron Horton, Genius Envy (OmniTone, 1999)
• Frank Kimbrough, Chant (Igmod, 1998)
• The Herbie Nichols Project, Love is Proximity (Soul Note, 1995)
• Lee Konitz, Rhapsody II (Evidence, 1993)
• Lee Konitz, Rhapsody (Evidence, 1993)
• Ted Nash, Out of This World (Mapleshade, 1991)

External links

• Ben Allison official site
• Ben Allison at Newport Jazz Festival Part of a Live Review at AllAboutJazz.com