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PATRICK WOLFF IS A SAXOPHONE AND CLARINET PLAYER WITH A LONG HISTORY IN THE JAZZ SCENES OF NEW YORK CITY AND SAN FRANCISCO. HE HAS PERFORMED OR RECORDED WITH MATT WILSON, ALBERT "TOOTIE" HEATH, GRANT STEWART, LOUIS MOHOLO-MOHOLO, DENA DEROSE, AND MANY OTHER JAZZ GREATS. SINCE MOVING TO SAN FRANCISCO IN 2009, WOLFF HAS APPEARED REGULARLY WITH MARCUS SHELBY, RICHARD SEARS, ADAM SHULMAN, AND DIANA GAMEROS. WITH SIX ALBUMS RELEASED UNDER HIS NAME, WOLFF HAS MADE HIS MARK AS A BANDLEADER WITH VARIOUS GROUPS PLAYING HIS ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, AND WITH CLASSIC JAZZ QUARTETs and Quintets FOCUSED ON REPERTOIRE OF THE BEBOP AND HARD BOP ERAS. HIS PLAYING IS CHARACTERIZED BY A FOCUS ON LYRICISM AND AN EMBRACE OF THE WHOLE LINEAGE OF JAZZ STYLES.
WOLFF IS ALSO A PASSIONATE JAZZ EDUCATOR AND ADVOCATE. FOR FOUR YEARS, HE HOSTED A WEEKLY SHOW ON KCSM 91.1 FM ("HAVE YOU HEARD") EXPLORING THE WORK OF EMERGING AND UNDERRATED JAZZ ARTISTS, and continues to DJ for the station on occasion. HE TEACHES JAZZ HISTORY, Composition, AND ENSEMBLE CLASSES AT THE SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND THE COLLEGE OF SAN MATEO THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, AND AT THE STANFORD JAZZ WORKSHOP IN THE SUMMER.
