Composer and Saxophonist Greg Wall has performed and recorded with Hasidic New Wave, Greg Wall’s Later Prophets, The Wall/London Band, Neshama Carlebach, the Hi-Tops, Greg Wall’s Unity Orchestra, and has made many session appearances for record dates and film scores. He was the musical voice of James Earl Jones in the recent feature film “On the QT”. His compositions for dance, jazz orchestra, and electronica have been widely performed and recorded. Greg is also the rabbi and spiritual leader of the Sixth Street Community Synagogue in New York City. His critically acclaimed release, “From the Belly of Abraham”, with Hasidic New Wave and Senegalese master drummers Yakar Rhythms was named one of the ten best CD’s of 2002 by Jazz Times magazine. Greg performs frequently at top venues throughout North America and Europe and has been featured at many major festivals. Greg is equally fluent in the jazz and world music idioms and recently premiered his Unity Orchestra, a pan cultural ensemble featuring 8 musicians from 5 continents. Greg has collaborated with the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company since 1999, resulting in the commissioned scores for “Mayne Mentshn” (2000-2001), the electronic scores “Echad” (2002), “Lovelines” (2003), Odisea (2005) and Tikkun (2008). His other releases include “Ha’Orot-The Lights of Rav Kook” and “Later Prophets” on John Zorn’s Tzadik label, 5 CD recordings with Hasidic New Wave, “Ani Shelach”, with Neshama Carlebach, “Unauthorized’, with Dave’s True Story, KlezmerFest’s “Party Music” and ‘Life Of the Party”, Aaron Alexander’s “Blues for Sparky” and “Midrash Mishmosh”, the score to “Mayne Mentshn”, and many others.

For more information about Greg Wall and his work, visit his website: www.gregwall.com