Allison, Cardenas, & Nash

Bassist and composer Ben Allison is somebody we can’t get enough of: from the moment he burst onto the national scene in the mid-1990s, we’ve loved his music, his playing, and the company he keeps. That’s why he was one of the first artists we set our sights on when we founded the RJA back in 2006, and it’s also why he’s been a repeat visitor over the years—with his own groups Man Size Safe and Think Free in 2008 and 2018, respectively, and with sometime bandmate Michael Blake’s Tiddy Boom in 2016.

As for company: the members of Allison, Cardenas, & Nash are companions of longstanding. Ben Allison and Ted Nash have known each other since the early 90s; Ben appeared on an album of Ted’s in 1993 (and many others since), and Ted was both a member of Ben’s late-90s group Medicine Wheel and a co-conspirator in the…