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Jazz Pianist Dan Wall Joins Faculty
 Dan Wall Photo Courtesy Dan Wall |
Jazz pianist, composer and recording artist Dan Wall has joined Oberlin's
faculty as visiting teacher of jazz piano, effective February 1, 2001.
At the age of 17, Wall was the winner of Down Beat magazine's Hall of Fame Scholarship; he has frequently been selected for their International Critics' Poll.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Wall cultivated a reputation as a jazz pianist by playing and recording with such artists as Joe Chambers, Al Cohn, Steve Grossman, Eddie Gomez, Eddie Harris, Sheila Jordan, Lee Konitz, Charlie Rouse and Jeremy Steig.
Other artists with whom he has performed or recorded include Steve Gadd, Tom Harrell, Billy Hart (Oberlin assistant professor of jazz percussion), Henry Mancini and Bernard Purdie. Wall's compositions have been recorded by, among others, Eddie Gomez and Chick Corea.
Since 1991, Wall has been a member of the John Abercrombie Trio, playing the Hammond B-3 organ. The Trio received critical acclaim for its first two recordings, While We're Young and Speak of the Devil, and the Los Angeles Village View wrote: "When it comes to sheer musicality, you'd be hard to find a better band than Abercrombie's Trio."
Tactics, recorded live by the Abercrombie Trio at the New York club Visiones for ECM Records, includes compositions by Wall alongside jazz standards and Abercrombie classics.
Wall's most recent release with the Trio is Open Land, recorded for ECM and featuring guest artists Joe Lovano, Mark Feldman and Kenny Wheeler.
Wall's first album
as an organ player in his own right was Off the Wall, recorded
in 1996 for Enja Records. He was joined on that recording by Austrian
guitarist Karl Ratzer, Adam Nussbaum, and Canadian trumpet player Ingrid
Jensen. His discography also includes a piano album for the label Audiophile
and four CDs with tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi for Double Time Records.
His most recent release as a leader, also with Double Time, is On the
Inside Looking In.
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