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Ben Hall
Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Ben Hall and his family moved to Etowah, Tennessee just before his first birthday. There he eventually picked up the trombone at age eleven and played in the local school bands for a few years.
Ben and his family then moved to Newark Delaware, where he began to take trombone playing seriously by studying with Phil Taylor. Eventually he would study with Dr. D.J. Hildebrandt, who would remain his teacher while he attended the University of Delaware, earning a Bachelors degree in Music Education.
Ben continued his education by studying improvisation with Robert "Boysie Lowery" (teacher of Clifford Brown and Ernie Watts), by attending Temple University (studying under Fred Scott), and by seeking out advice and help from professional trombonists (such as Jiggs Whigham, Bill Reichenbach, Bruce Fowler and Doug Elliot).
Persistence paid off by being able to travel with bands through Europe, Central America and North America. Ben has performed with such artists as Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Lee Konitz, the Four Tops, the Temptations, Ernie Watts, Denis DiBlasio, Bobby Rydell and Betty Buckley. Some of the places where Ben has performed include Wolftrap Farm Park and the Kennedy Center as well as the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the Adams Morgan Festival in Washington D.C. and for President Bushs' & Clinton's Inaugurations.
Currently, Ben and his family live in the Washington D.C. area where he is teaching, working as a freelance trombonist, and completing various recording projects as trombonist and composer/arranger for the WAMA (Washington Area Music Awards) award winning artists including Lilo Gonzalez y los de Mt Pleasant and other DC artists.
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