Quick Facts
Biography
Aaron Wolf (born in San Luis Obispo, California, 1979) is an American jazz musician, player of the Alto saxophone and Tenor saxophone and also a composer and educator. Wolf studied music at the Berklee College of Music and at University of Nevada, Reno, and performed with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, The Temptations, Chicago (musical), and has composed and recorded for NBC.
Educator career
Wolf teaches at BASIS Independent Silicon Valley directing the Orchestras, and teaching many music topics including AP Music Theory. Previously he taught Jazz History, Theory, and was Interim Director of Jazz Studies at Cuesta College, with good student reviews, and at California Polytechnic State University.
The Jimdangles
According to SNP Records, The Jimdangles are "a quartet of jazz aficionados whose debut eponymous album features whisper-to-a-screaming-saxophone jazz working the outside fringes of the genre. You’ll hear elements of be bop and free jazz, but you’ll also catch snippets of Middle Eastern and other exotic sounds."
Discography
With the Jimdangles
- 2007: The Jimdangles