Ha liderado varios grupos: The Ben Allison Band, Peace Pipe, The Ben Allison Quartet, Medicine Wheel, The Kush Trio, Man Size Safe, y el Herbie Nichols Project (que co-lidera junto al pianista Frank Kimbrough). En 1991 impulsó la creación del Jazz Composers Collective, una organización no lucrativa radicada en a Nueva York.^[1]​

• Seven Arrows (Koch Records, 1995)
• Medicine Wheel (Palmetto Records, 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)

• 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)

• Ben Allison en el Newport Jazz Festival. All About Jazz

• Este artículo está tomado, en su versión inicial, de Ben Allison, en Wikipedia en inglés.