Ben Allison Band

Ben Allison's bands have been growing ever more guitarcentric in recent years, and that trend reached an apex on the bassist-composer's latest enchanting dispatch, 2013's The Stars Look Very Different Today, which juxtaposes the respectively soothing and searing ax work of Steve Cardenas and Brandon Seabrook. Both are on hand—along with the album's expert drummer, Allison Miller—for this gig.