GRAMMY^® Award-winner Ben Williams is an acclaimed bassist, bandleader, performer, music educator, composer and film actor who has performed with the likes of Wynton Marsalis, George Benson, Pat Metheny, David Sanborn, Chaka Kahn, Pharrell Williams, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Terri Lyne Carrington, Terence Blanchard, Roy Hargrove, Benny Golson, Stefon Harris and Don Cheadle, just to name a few.  Williams won his first GRAMMY Award in 2013 with the Pat Metheny Unity Band for Best Jazz Instrumental Album.  A native of Washington, DC, Williams has garnered numerous awards, including Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll Rising Star Award for Bass in 2013 and 2015, the 2009 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Bass Competition Award, the 2011 iTunes Breakthrough Artist of the Year in the jazz category, and the Michigan State University Alumni Award.