When New York City bassist and composer Ben Allison began writing music for his new album Moments Inside last year, he expected it would reflect the pain, anger and sorrow that was all around. But that’s not what happened. “When I was done, I was surprised to find the music was, at least to my ears, very beautiful and maybe even positive and uplifting,” he says. “It’s much less dark than I thought it might have been. I realized in retrospect I wasn’t just writing music that I was feeling.