From 1983-85, Allison studied West African, Haitian and Cuban drumming traditions with Richard Hill and attended the ACES Educational Center for the Arts (ECA), a performing arts school, and Wilbur Cross High School.
At sixteen, he left the choir and began a more intensive study of the saxophone, attending the Jazzmobile in New York City, the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, and the ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven.
Bachelor of Arts | World Trade Center | center | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | National Endowment for the Arts | Master of Arts | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Electronic Arts | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Kennedy Space Center | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Walker Art Center | Tisch School of the Arts | mixed martial arts | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | Institute of Contemporary Arts | École des Beaux-Arts | California Institute of the Arts | Marshall Space Flight Center | Rockefeller Center | Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center | Goddard Space Flight Center | British Academy of Film and Television Arts | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts | University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | martial arts | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Academy of Fine Arts | Georgia World Congress Center |