JEREMY WALL... is a founding member of Spyro Gyra... Billboard's top jazz group of the 80s...he has appeared on all 18 of their records in various roles as composer, producer, arranger & keyboardist. He was staff arranger for CTI Records... the granddaddy of all jazz fusion labels... for 3 years. He's been in demand as producer, arranger & keyboardist on top album projects in the jazz, pop & classical fields since 1978. With over 60 of his compositions released on records & CDs, he ranks as one of the premier composers in contemporary jazz. His 2 solo releases... "Cool Running" & "Stepping to the New World" ... were chart-topping NAC radio hits.
Spyro Gyra's "Morning Dance" album... nearing two million sold... was paced by Wall's 4 compositions. Of the 4 videos released by the group, 2 were based on his tunes. His composition "Shakedown" received a 1987 Grammy nomination for Best Pop Instrumental. In all, 38 of Wall's compositions have appeared on the 6 million units the group has sold over the years. He also produced 7 highly acclaimed crossover records with Richard Stolzman, the premiere classical clarinetist in the world. The album... "Begin Sweet World"...was cited by Stereo Review as the top classical crossover record of the year.
Wall's career runs the gamut from barroom Blues to Carnegie Hall. He has produced & arranged records with pop singers like Astrud Gilberto, Patti Austin & Judy Collins. He has collaborated with jazz legends Stanley Clarke, Gary Burton, John McLaughlin & Tony Williams & he's logged numerous sessions with Steve Gadd, Will Lee & Marcus Miller. In 1994 his song..."Summer Strut"... was chosen as the theme music for the Regis & Kathy Lee Show... in 1998 he produced, composed, arranged & performed the theme music for an NBC Sports series. Jeremy has taught at Ramapo College & SUNY Purchase & is currently an associate music professor at SUNY Oneonta.
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ERIK LAWRENCE plays saxophones & flutes... he began playing sax at 5 years old under the guidance of his father, Rock & Roll Guru Arnie Lawrence, jazz musician, founder of the New School of Jazz in NYC & the International Center for Creative Music Studies in Jerusalem,... he told Erik to "Play what you feel." Erik plays in various styles, from traditional to experimental... in large ensembles to solos... & he got a Meet-the-Composer Grant for his writing.
Erik teaches jazz saxophone at Williams College & the Putney School. He has taught sax, jazz, jazz history, ensembles, & methods classes at Montclair State U. & Rockland Community College.... & has taught saxophone & flute to all ages & improvisation for all instruments for over 20 years.
He has taken his original melodic & rhythmic approach to Europe... across the US... S. America... & the Caribbean....he performed solo improvised saxophone at Carnegie Recital Hall in NY & has been the featured performer at the World Peace Festival... performed at the Northsea Jazz, Discover Jazz, Montreal Jazz, Molde Jazz, Pori Jazz, Porto Saalfelden Jazz & Moers festivals in Europe... & the Free Jazz Festival in Brazil, the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Berkshire Jazz Festival & Bumbershoots.
Erik leads & plays with various ensembles... His sidemen have included Garth Hudson, Mark Egan, Steven Bernstein, Dave Tronzo, Aaron Comess, Mark White, Eric Schenkman, Alex Blake, Cameron Brown, Lonnie Plaxico, John Pizzarelli, Don Gardner, Murali Coryell; and poets Jane LeCroy, Frank Messina & many, many others. His current original projects include HIPMOTISM, featuring Grammy nominee Steven Bernstein & drummer Allison Miller; MERGE Poetry/Music project featuring poet Cassandra Cleghorn & Allison Miller.
Erik has performed &/or recorded with the Levon Helm Band, jazz drummer Chico Hamilton; Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra; Branford Marsalis, The Masters of the Groove:featuring Bernard Purdie, Grant Green Jr. & Reuben Wilson, Neville Family Affair, Buddy Miles, Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint, David Amram, Rickie Lee Jones, Sonny Sharrock, The Band, The Spin Doctors, John Popper, Bob Dylan, Joan Osborn, Gillian Welch, Istanbul Orchestra, Jackie Cain & Roy Kral, Arnie Lawrence, John Cale, A.C. Reed & more!... He has been featured on many film soundtracks & TV programs... numerous TV commercials.... & he's played on a long list of CDs...many with the artists listed above & he's also a member of Dan Denerstein's band... SLIM'S REVENGE.... & check out Erik's current CD HIPMOTISM. www.hipmotism.com
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Bassist/vocalist JOHN ARBO was a voice major at Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Metropolitan Opera tenor Gabor Carelli.
Active on both upright and fretted and fretless electric basses, he has been the bassist for Les Paul and is a veteran of the Woody Herman Band - he toured with Woody in the early '80's. He's worked with many singers including Susannah McCorkle, Nell Carter, Tom Wopat, Ann Hampton
Callaway and Nancy LaMott, and has toured with Liza Minnelli and presently Tony Danza. John has also had the bass chair at many B'way shows including "Cyrano", "Miss Saigon", "42nd St"., "Good Vibrations" and "The Producers."
As a singer, he toured and recorded for 7 years as the baritone with the New York Vocal Arts Ensemble - a classical vocal quartet - including
appearances at the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, Dumbarton Oaks and other leading halls in the Americas and Europe. He can also be heard in the Spanish-language version of the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular.
He recently appeared in the role of Jonas Fogg (and played the bass) in the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of "Sweeney Todd".
John teaches bass at New School University in NYC and is the autho of the eMedia Bass Method, an instructional DVD/CD rom.