San Francisco saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, bandleader, educator, and jazz advocate Patrick Wolff leads projects that move between original music, bebop and hard-bop repertoire, and organ-driven small-group jazz.
Home base: San Francisco, California
Styles: Bebop, Hard Bop, Contemporary Jazz, Organ Jazz, Straight-Ahead Jazz
Instruments: Saxophone, Clarinet, Composition, Bandleading, Jazz Education
Band: Leads projects including the Patrick Wolff Quartet, Patrick Wolff Bebop Truth Quartet, and Patrick Wolff’s Swinging Organ Quartet.
Patrick Wolff is a saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, bandleader, and educator with longstanding ties to the jazz communities of New York City and San Francisco. Raised in upstate New York, he studied at New York University with Ralph Lalama, George Garzone, Frank Foster, Ron McClure, and Frank Kimbrough, and toured with the Glenn Miller Orchestra before relocating to San Francisco in 2009. In the Bay Area, Wolff has performed and recorded with musicians including Marcus Shelby, Graham Connah, Andrew Speight, Adam Shulman, and Diana Gameros, while continuing to lead his own small ensembles. His work ranges from original compositions to classic bebop and hard-bop repertoire, including the organ-quartet tradition. Wolff is also an active jazz educator and advocate, with teaching work at the Stanford Jazz Workshop, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the College of San Mateo.
Patrick Wolff brings a lifetime of deep jazz immersion to The Deluxe, joined by a stellar quartet — Adam Shulman on piano, Eric Markowitz on bass, and Sylvia Cuenca on drums. A saxophone and clarinet player with a distinguished history in the jazz scenes of New York City and San Francisco, Wolff has performed or...
Patrick Wolff Trio at Stookey’s Blue Room features saxophonist and clarinetist Patrick Wolff with David Ewell on bass and Smith Dobson on drums. Wolff’s lyrical, deep-swinging approach reflects his long...
Saxophonist Patrick Wolff brings his Swinging Organ Quartet to North Beach's Keys Jazz Bistro for an evening of hard-grooving soul-jazz and post-bop. Channeling the classic late-1950s and early-1960s prestige sound...