Bio

 Ben Solomon’s musical upbringing began when he started learning saxophone at the age of 10 and was exposed to the music of John Coltrane and Miles Davis.  Ben moved to New York to study music in 2012, and left school to go on tour with Wallace Roney’s band.  Playing in this band from 2012 to 2017 had a formative effect on Ben’s playing.  Roney was a mentor and positive influence on Ben’s musical growth. As Roney’s sideman, Solomon also had the great opportunity to play alongside master musicians such as Buster Williams, Lenny White, Patrice Rushen, Gary Bartz, Ron Carter, and many others.

 Other notable performances include performing as a guest artist with the Brown University Jazz Ensembles in 2015, touring Europe with Felix Rossy’s band, and in 2016, Solomon played 2 nights with Chick Corea at the Blue Note in New York for Chick Corea’s 75th birthday residency at the Blue Note. In 2023, Solomon played a week at the Village Vanguard with the Aaron Parks quartet.  Solomon is also on Aaron Park's upcoming album "By All Means!!" to be released in November 2025 on Blue Note Records.

 In 2017 Solomon went back to school to study music composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston.  While living in Boston, Ben played regularly at Wally’s jazz club and continued touring, performed with Ben Wolfe at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola in 2017, Theo Hill (also at Dizzy’s) in 2018, and in 2019 made an appearance with Wallace Roney’s band at the Wall to Wall John Coltrane festival at Symphony Space in New York City. In 2020 Solomon published "Chromatophores”, a book of modulation etudes for saxophone which was followed by a second book of etudes in 2023. In 2024 Solomon released his first quartet album “Echolocation”. He is currently living in New York City where he is working on a book of duets for piano and saxophone to be released in the fall of 2025.