Dana Hall has been an important musician on the international music scene since 1992, when he left aerospace engineering for a life in music. He has teaching and performance credits on six continents and concert, club, and festival experience throughout Africa, Europe, and Asia as both a bandleader and with such luminaries as Branford Marsalis, Chick Corea, Horace Silver, Ray Charles, Benny Golson, Betty Carter, and Maria Schneider, among others.