Indeed, Wolff had plenty more life to live and music to make-including Swirl, his radiant new Sunnyside piano-trio album featuring bassist Ben Allison and drummer Allan Mednard. “I guess it just wasn’t my time,” he recalls today, chuckling. Lifting his head up, he growled: “Resuscitate me!” Through the haze of drugs and debilitating illness, Wolff interjected. At one point, as Wolff was being cared for by his wife, the award-winning actress, director and writer Polly Draper, a doctor asked her if she’d signed a Do Not Resuscitate order. They played guitars and sang at his bedside, tapping into the sweet, winsome gifts that had made the Wolffs a famous musical family nearly a decade earlier, via the hit TV series The Naked Brothers Band. His sons Nat and Alex, in the midst of their ascent as two of the most talented actors of their generation, had returned home to be with their father and try to comfort him. He’d fallen into a coma at a New York hospital, and the prognosis had moved from doubtful to defeated. In the summer of 2015, a grueling and often bewildering four-year battle with a rare cancer had the acclaimed pianist-composer Michael Wolff on the ropes. Lavity Stoutt Community College in Tortola, BVI, February 24, 2006. L–R: Mike Clark, Michael, Richie Goods, Badal Roy performed at H. Release of Wolff & Clark Expedition by Michael Wolff & Mike Clarkĭebut of The Naked Brothers Band on NickelodeonĬo-star, producer, musical producer for independent film The Naked Brothers Band, directed by Polly DraperĪlbum release or other significant event that took place this year. I was inspired by Bill Evans’ admonition that ‘‘Truth and beauty’ is all that matters.’”
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