Way Out West Concert Series - Patrick Wolff Sextet at Rendon Hall

CJC's Way Out West Concert Series provides composer-performers from the Bay Area and beyondÊwith aÊTuesdayÊevening showcase for forward-looking original work in jazz and related genres. Join us weekly in Rendon Hall for Way Out West! Tuesday, May 28 Way Out West features Patrick Wolff Sextet, with Patrick Wolff (saxophone), Richard Sears (piano), Hamir Atwal (drums), Erik Jekabson (trumpet), Matt Renzi (winds) and bass TBD.ÊA highly expressive saxophonist who spent his formative years in New York City honing a post-bop sensibility, Patrick Wolff has found his voice arranging and composing for a melodically charged sextet...

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CJC's Way Out West Concert Series provides composer-performers from the Bay Area and beyondÊwith aÊTuesdayÊevening showcase for forward-looking original work in jazz and related genres. Join us weekly in Rendon Hall for Way Out West! Tuesday, May 28 Way Out West features Patrick Wolff Sextet, with Patrick Wolff (saxophone), Richard Sears (piano), Hamir Atwal (drums), Erik Jekabson (trumpet), Matt Renzi (winds) and bass TBD.ÊA highly expressive saxophonist who spent his formative years in New York City honing a post-bop sensibility, Patrick Wolff has found his voice arranging and composing for a melodically charged sextet. Featuring a brilliant array of Bay Area talent, the ensembles swoops and glides through WolffÕs intricate charts, generating tremendous excitement as serpentine lines diverge and converge to create sumptuous harmonies." -ÊAndrew Gilbert. Patrick Wolff is a saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator, originally from New York, and currently residing in San Francisco.Wolff attended New York University, where he studied with Ralph Lalama, George Garzone, Frank Foster, Ron McClure, and Frank Kimbrough. In the jazz world, Patrick Wolff has toured heavily with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, worked with Shane Endsley, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Alexander Hawkins, Matt Wilson, Grant Stewart, Dena DeRose, Josh Roseman, Judi Silvano, Harry Allen, Marcus Shelby, Tootie Heath, and Ron McClure, and has had the great fortune of performing with many of the worldÕs greatest musicians, including Louis Hayes, Peter Bernstein, Allison Miller, Roy McCurdy, Larry Willis, Larry Grenadier, Drew Gress, Marcus Gilmore, Gregory Hutchinson, Joe Lovano, George Cables, Marcus Belgrave, Dayna Stephens, Taylor Eigsti, Julian Lage, and Ray Drummond

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