Michael Wolff
Encyclopedia
Michael Blieden Wolff is an American jazz pianist, composer
, producer, actor, and jazz educator. He was the bandleader and musical director of The Arsenio Hall Show
. He also co-starred on Nickelodeon
's The Naked Brothers Band
with sons Nat
and Alex Wolff
, which was a mock documentary
created and produced by his wife, actress Polly Draper
.
in Victorville, California
. His father was a U.S. Air Force medical doctor. He was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana and Memphis, Tennessee. At age nine his family moved to Berkeley, California. He began studying classical piano at age eight, and drums at age 12. He attended Berkeley High School. After graduation, he attended U.C. Berkeley, where he had begun playing piano with the University of California Jazz Ensembles
under the direction of Dr. David W. Tucker
while still at Berkeley High School, and then U.C.L.A.
's band. In 1975, he joined Cannonball Adderley's band. In 1977, he formed the band Answering Service with saxophonist Alex Foster. Wolff worked with other famous musicians/bands including Warren Zevon
, The Thad Jones/ Mel Lewis Orchestra, Sonny Rollins
, Wayne Shorter
, Jean-Luc Ponty
, Children On The Corner,Terri Lyne Carrington
Tony Williams, and Christian McBride
. In 1979, Wolff composed and played original music—and served as host—for the Riverside Shakespeare Company
production of The Mandrake
in New York City, featuring Tom Hanks
.
In 1978, Singer Nancy Wilson
chose Wolff as her musical director. Arsenio Hall
was Wilson's opening act. When Hall was given his own talk show, The Arsenio Hall Show
, in 1989, Wolff was chosen as his bandleader and musical director. He met his wife, actress Polly Draper, when she appeared as a guest on the show. In 1995 he released Jumpstart featuring Christian McBride
and Tony Williams and in 1997 the trio released 2AM. Wolff is the leader of a jazz band, Michael Wolff and Impure Thoughts, which features Indian tabla
player Badal Roy
, drummer Mike Clark, percussionist Frank Colón
and electric bassist John B. Williams.
He wrote music for the films Who's the Man?
and Made up, as well as writing for and performing in other films. A movie released on video in 1999—The Tic Code
starring Gregory Hines
as a saxophone player with Tourette syndrome
who befriends a young boy with Tourette's—was written by Draper and is loosely based on Wolff's life. Wolff contributed the music score and Draper co-stars in the film. Wolff co-starred in The Naked Brothers Band
on Nickelodeon
with his sons, Nat and Alex. The show was created, executive produced, written, and directed by Polly Draper. Wolff was the co-executive producer and music supervisor of the show.
Wolff oftens plays in various nightclubs in Manhattan, including the Knickerbocker Bar and Grill, performing with members of the Michael Wolff Trio, such as drummer Victor Jones and bass player John B. Williams. He is on the faculty at The New School For Jazz And Contemporary Music.
. They have two children, Nat Wolff
and Alex Wolff
. His family is culturally Jewish. Wolff has Tourette syndrome
; he serves on the Board of Directors of the Tourette Syndrome Association
(TSA), and is involved with mentoring children with Tourette's through the chapters of the TSA. He lives in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, NY, and Los Angeles, CA.
With Cal Tjader
and Charlie Byrd
With Cannonball Adderley
With Tom Harrell
With Sonny Rollins
With Nancy Wilson
With David Axelrod
With Warren Zevon
With Children On The Corner
With Alex Foster
With Dave Samuels
With Pastiche
With Sam Morrison
, the Giffoni Film Festival
and the Hamptons International Film Festival
. Wolff and sons won the 2007 BMI Film and TV Award for the music on The Naked Brothers Band (TV series)
.
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, producer, actor, and jazz educator. He was the bandleader and musical director of The Arsenio Hall Show
The Arsenio Hall Show
The Arsenio Hall Show is an American variety/talk show that aired late weeknights in syndication from January 3, 1989 to May 27, 1994. The show was created and hosted by comedian/actor Arsenio Hall.- Background :...
. He also co-starred on Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (TV channel)
Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...
's The Naked Brothers Band
The Naked Brothers Band (TV series)
The Naked Brothers Band is an American television musical comedy created by Polly Draper. The show depicts the daily lives of Draper's sons, who lead a faux rock band from New York City. As a mockumentary, the storyline is a hyperbole of their real lives, and the fictional presence of a camera is...
with sons Nat
Nat Wolff
Nathaniel Marvin "Nat" Wolff is an American child actor, and singer-songwriter, composer, and keyboardist. He is the frontman of Nat & Alex Wolff...
and Alex Wolff
Alex Wolff
Alexander Draper "Alex" Wolff is an American child actor and musician, currently playing in Nat and Alex Wolff. He is best known for his role as himself on the Nickelodeon series The Naked Brothers Band, also starring his older brother, Nat Wolff; the series was created by the boys' mother, Polly...
, which was a mock documentary
Mockumentary
A mockumentary , is a type of film or television show in which fictitious events are presented in documentary format. These productions are often used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictitious setting, or to parody the documentary form itself...
created and produced by his wife, actress Polly Draper
Polly Draper
Polly Carey Draper is an American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director. She is renowned for her ensemble role in ABC's hit series Thirtysomething. In 1998, Draper starred in her screenwriting debut The Tic Code, featuring Gregory Hines which was inspired by her husband Michael...
.
Early life
Wolff was born at George Air Force BaseGeorge Air Force Base
George Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base located within city limits, 8 miles northwest of central Victorville, California, about 75 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California. The facility was closed by the Base Realignment and Closure 1992 commission at the end of the Cold...
in Victorville, California
Victorville, California
Victorville is a city located in the Victor Valley of southwestern San Bernardino County, California. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 census, the city had a population of 115,903, up from 64,030 at the 2000 census.-Geography and climate:...
. His father was a U.S. Air Force medical doctor. He was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana and Memphis, Tennessee. At age nine his family moved to Berkeley, California. He began studying classical piano at age eight, and drums at age 12. He attended Berkeley High School. After graduation, he attended U.C. Berkeley, where he had begun playing piano with the University of California Jazz Ensembles
University of California Jazz Ensembles
The University of California Jazz Ensembles, also known as the UC Jazz Ensembles, UC Jazz, or UCJE, is the student jazz organization founded in 1967 on the University of California, Berkeley, campus. Founded in 1967, it comprises one or more big bands, numerous jazz combos, a vocal jazz ensemble,...
under the direction of Dr. David W. Tucker
David W. Tucker
David W. Tucker was a jazz trombonist, music educator, composer of band and orchestral music, record producer, and marching band arranger, most renowned as the director of the University of California Jazz Ensembles from 1969 until 1985...
while still at Berkeley High School, and then U.C.L.A.
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
Career
In 1972, Wolff left college to begin his music career, joining Cal TjaderCal Tjader
Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. a.k.a. Cal Tjader was a Latin jazz musician, though he also explored various other jazz idioms. Unlike other American jazz musicians who experimented with the music from Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America, he never abandoned it, performing it until his...
's band. In 1975, he joined Cannonball Adderley's band. In 1977, he formed the band Answering Service with saxophonist Alex Foster. Wolff worked with other famous musicians/bands including Warren Zevon
Warren Zevon
Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known...
, The Thad Jones/ Mel Lewis Orchestra, Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is a Grammy-winning American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St...
, Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...
, Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty is a French virtuoso violinist and jazz composer.- Early years:Ponty was born into a family of classical musicians on 29 September 1942 in Avranches, France. His father taught violin, his mother taught piano...
, Children On The Corner,Terri Lyne Carrington
Terri Lyne Carrington
Terri Lyne Carrington is a jazz drummer, composer, record producer and entrepreneur. She has played with jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Clark Terry, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, Al Jarreau, Yellowjackets, and many more...
Tony Williams, and Christian McBride
Christian McBride
Christian McBride is an American jazz bassist. His father, Lee Smith, and his great uncle, Howard Cooper, are well known Philadelphia bassists who served as McBride's early mentors...
. In 1979, Wolff composed and played original music—and served as host—for the Riverside Shakespeare Company
Riverside Shakespeare Company
The Riverside Shakespeare Company of New York City was founded in 1977 as a professional theatre company on the Upper West Side of New York City, by W. Stuart McDowell and Gloria Skurski...
production of The Mandrake
The Mandrake
The Mandrake is a satirical play by Italian Renaissance writer Niccolò Machiavelli. Its tale of the corruption of Italian society was written while Machiavelli was in exile, allegedly having plotted against the Medici...
in New York City, featuring Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies, gaining wide notice in 1988's Big, before achieving success as a dramatic actor in several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title...
.
In 1978, Singer Nancy Wilson
Nancy Wilson (singer)
Nancy Wilson is an American singer with more than 70 albums, and three Grammy Awards. She has been labeled a singer of blues, jazz, cabaret and pop; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer." The title she prefers, however, is song stylist...
chose Wolff as her musical director. Arsenio Hall
Arsenio Hall
Arsenio Hall is an American actor, comedian, and former talk show host. He is best known for his talk show The Arsenio Hall Show, which ran between 1989 and 1994, and his roles in the films Coming to America and Harlem Nights.Hall is also known for his appearance as Alan Thicke's sidekick on the...
was Wilson's opening act. When Hall was given his own talk show, The Arsenio Hall Show
The Arsenio Hall Show
The Arsenio Hall Show is an American variety/talk show that aired late weeknights in syndication from January 3, 1989 to May 27, 1994. The show was created and hosted by comedian/actor Arsenio Hall.- Background :...
, in 1989, Wolff was chosen as his bandleader and musical director. He met his wife, actress Polly Draper, when she appeared as a guest on the show. In 1995 he released Jumpstart featuring Christian McBride
Christian McBride
Christian McBride is an American jazz bassist. His father, Lee Smith, and his great uncle, Howard Cooper, are well known Philadelphia bassists who served as McBride's early mentors...
and Tony Williams and in 1997 the trio released 2AM. Wolff is the leader of a jazz band, Michael Wolff and Impure Thoughts, which features Indian tabla
Tabla
The tabla is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in Hindustani classical music and in popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres...
player Badal Roy
Badal Roy
Badal Roy is a tabla player, percussionist, and recording artist known for his work in jazz, world music, and experimental music.-Biography:...
, drummer Mike Clark, percussionist Frank Colón
Frank Colón
Frank Colón is an American musician and martial artist, of Puerto Rican descent.-Biography:Born in Washington, D.C., Colón moved from there to Puerto Rico at the age of five...
and electric bassist John B. Williams.
He wrote music for the films Who's the Man?
Who's the Man?
Who's the Man? is a 1993 comedy film, directed by Ted Demme. The film stars Yo! MTV Raps hosts Doctor Dré and Ed Lover as its two main protagonists., it features dozens of cameo appearances from some of the top rap/hip-hop acts of the time, including Busta Rhymes, Eric B., House of Pain, Ice-T,...
and Made up, as well as writing for and performing in other films. A movie released on video in 1999—The Tic Code
The Tic Code
The Tic Code is an independent American drama film directed by Gary Winick and written by Polly Draper. It tells of the interactions between a single mother, the relationship she forms with a jazz musician who has Tourette syndrome, and her young son—a jazz piano prodigy—also with the disorder...
starring Gregory Hines
Gregory Hines
Gregory Oliver Hines was an American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer.-Early years:Born in New York City, Hines and his older brother Maurice started dancing at an early age, studying with choreographer Henry LeTang...
as a saxophone player with Tourette syndrome
Tourette syndrome
Tourette syndrome is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by multiple physical tics and at least one vocal tic; these tics characteristically wax and wane...
who befriends a young boy with Tourette's—was written by Draper and is loosely based on Wolff's life. Wolff contributed the music score and Draper co-stars in the film. Wolff co-starred in The Naked Brothers Band
The Naked Brothers Band (TV series)
The Naked Brothers Band is an American television musical comedy created by Polly Draper. The show depicts the daily lives of Draper's sons, who lead a faux rock band from New York City. As a mockumentary, the storyline is a hyperbole of their real lives, and the fictional presence of a camera is...
on Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (TV channel)
Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...
with his sons, Nat and Alex. The show was created, executive produced, written, and directed by Polly Draper. Wolff was the co-executive producer and music supervisor of the show.
Wolff oftens plays in various nightclubs in Manhattan, including the Knickerbocker Bar and Grill, performing with members of the Michael Wolff Trio, such as drummer Victor Jones and bass player John B. Williams. He is on the faculty at The New School For Jazz And Contemporary Music.
Personal life
Wolff is married to actress/writer Polly DraperPolly Draper
Polly Carey Draper is an American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director. She is renowned for her ensemble role in ABC's hit series Thirtysomething. In 1998, Draper starred in her screenwriting debut The Tic Code, featuring Gregory Hines which was inspired by her husband Michael...
. They have two children, Nat Wolff
Nat Wolff
Nathaniel Marvin "Nat" Wolff is an American child actor, and singer-songwriter, composer, and keyboardist. He is the frontman of Nat & Alex Wolff...
and Alex Wolff
Alex Wolff
Alexander Draper "Alex" Wolff is an American child actor and musician, currently playing in Nat and Alex Wolff. He is best known for his role as himself on the Nickelodeon series The Naked Brothers Band, also starring his older brother, Nat Wolff; the series was created by the boys' mother, Polly...
. His family is culturally Jewish. Wolff has Tourette syndrome
Tourette syndrome
Tourette syndrome is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by multiple physical tics and at least one vocal tic; these tics characteristically wax and wane...
; he serves on the Board of Directors of the Tourette Syndrome Association
Tourette Syndrome Association
The Tourette Syndrome Association , based in Bayside, New York, United States, is a non-profit voluntary organization and the only national health-related organization serving people with Tourette syndrome. It was founded in 1972 by five couples, parents of children with Tourette syndrome...
(TSA), and is involved with mentoring children with Tourette's through the chapters of the TSA. He lives in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, NY, and Los Angeles, CA.
As leader
- 1993 – Michael Wolff (Columbia Jazz)
- 1995 – Jumpstart! (Jimco/Cabana)
- 1996 – 2AM (Cabana)
- 1998 – Portraiture: The Blues Period (Fuel 2000/Varese Saraband)
- 2000 – The Tic Code Soundtrack (Razor And Tie)
- 2001 – Impure Thoughts (Indianola Music)
- 2003 – Intoxicate (Indianola Music)
- 2003 – Christmas Moods (Artemis)
- 2003 – Getting Into Heaven Soundtrack
- 2004 – Dangerous Vision (Artemis Records)
- 2005 – Sexual Healing (3D)
- 2006 – Love & Destruction (Wrong Records)
- 2007 – jazz, JAZZ, jazz (Wrong Records)
- 2009 – Joe's Strut (Wrong Records)
As sideman
With Cal TjaderCal Tjader
Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. a.k.a. Cal Tjader was a Latin jazz musician, though he also explored various other jazz idioms. Unlike other American jazz musicians who experimented with the music from Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America, he never abandoned it, performing it until his...
- 1972 – Live At Concerts By The Sea (Fantasy)
- 1999 – Last Bolero In Berkeley (Fantasy)
- 2008 – Best Of Cal Tjader: Live At The Monterey Jazz Festival 1958-1980 (Monterey Jazz Festival)
With Cal Tjader
Cal Tjader
Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. a.k.a. Cal Tjader was a Latin jazz musician, though he also explored various other jazz idioms. Unlike other American jazz musicians who experimented with the music from Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America, he never abandoned it, performing it until his...
and Charlie Byrd
Charlie Byrd
Charlie Lee Byrd was a famous and versatile American guitarist born in Suffolk, Virginia. His earliest and strongest musical influence was Django Reinhardt, the famous gypsy guitarist. Byrd became the American guitarist who best understood and played Brazilian music, especially the Bossa Nova genre...
- 1973 – Tambu (Fantasy)
With Cannonball Adderley
- 1975 – PhenixPhenixPhenix is a French comic book character created by Luciano Bernasconi for French publisher Editions Lug in 1978.Phenix is the secret identity of Chicago socialite Patricia Hope...
(Fantasy) - 1975 – Volume One: Montreal 1975 (Essential Media Group)
With Tom Harrell
Tom Harrell
Tom Harrell is a renowned American post-bop jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer and arranger.-Biography:Tom Harrell was born in Urbana, Illinois but moved to the San Francisco Bay Area at the age of five. He started playing trumpet at eight and within five years, started playing gigs with...
- 1975 – Aurora (Adamo/Pinnacle)
- 1976 – Bird Gets The Worm (Adamo/Pinnacle)
With Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is a Grammy-winning American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St...
- 1977 Live At The Village Gate (Bootleg)
With Nancy Wilson
Nancy Wilson (singer)
Nancy Wilson is an American singer with more than 70 albums, and three Grammy Awards. She has been labeled a singer of blues, jazz, cabaret and pop; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer." The title she prefers, however, is song stylist...
- 1979 – Live In Munich
- 1982 – At My Best (ASI)
- 1991 –With My Lover Beside Me (Columbia)
With David Axelrod
David Axelrod (musician)
David Axelrod is an American composer, arranger and producer, working in several musical genres.-Biography:...
- 1993 – Requiem - The Holocaust (Liberty)
- 2003 – The Big Country (Stateside)
With Warren Zevon
Warren Zevon
Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known...
- 1995 – MutineerMutineerMutineer is an album by American singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, released in 1995. .-Track listing:All tracks composed by Warren Zevon, except where indicated.#"Seminole Bingo" – 3:10...
(Giant) - 2002 – My Ride's HereMy Ride's HereMark Deming of Allmusic rated My Ride's Here two out of five stars. He stated that "the jokes tend to be a bit obvious", and that "the more introspective moments don't connect the way one might hope". However, he said that some of the tracks "are strong enough to remind listeners of just how...
(Artemis)
With Children On The Corner
- 2003 – Rebirth (Sonance)
With Alex Foster
- 1997 – Pool Of Dreams (Truspace)
With Dave Samuels
Dave Samuels
Dave Samuels is an American vibraphone player who has worked with various jazz and fusion artists, such as Spyro Gyra. Currently, he plays in an ensemble called The Caribbean Jazz Project, a Grammy-winning jazz-Latin music group...
- 1998 – Tjaderized (Verve)
With Pastiche
- 2001 – Pastiche (Summit)
With Sam Morrison
- 2005 – Miles Away (Convalian)
Film
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Magic Sticks | Bob | |
| 1999 | The Tic Code The Tic Code The Tic Code is an independent American drama film directed by Gary Winick and written by Polly Draper. It tells of the interactions between a single mother, the relationship she forms with a jazz musician who has Tourette syndrome, and her young son—a jazz piano prodigy—also with the disorder... |
Engineer #2 | Also co-producer and wrote original music score |
| 2005 | The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie The Naked Brothers Band is an American film written and directed by actress Polly Draper and stars her sons, Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff, who portray members of a fictional rock group. It tells of the boys' struggles with their fame and an internal dispute that causes the band to temporarily break up... |
Dad | A mock documentary. Starring his sons Nat and Alex Wolff, who both wrote and performed all the film's songs. Written & directed by his wife, actress Polly Draper. Music produced/arranged by Michael Wolff. Indie film-turned TV movie pilot; Musical/family film. |
| 2007 | The Girl In The Park The Girl in the Park The Girl in the Park is a drama film by writer/director David Auburn, who makes his directorial debut here after having written the films Proof in 2005 and The Lake House in 2006... |
Jazz Club Piano Player |
Television
| Year | Program or series | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989–1994 | The Arsenio Hall Show The Arsenio Hall Show The Arsenio Hall Show is an American variety/talk show that aired late weeknights in syndication from January 3, 1989 to May 27, 1994. The show was created and hosted by comedian/actor Arsenio Hall.- Background :... |
Himself, Band leader | |
| 1990 | Beverly Hills, 90210 Beverly Hills, 90210 Beverly Hills, 90210 is an American drama series that originally aired from October 4, 1990 to May 17, 2000 on Fox and was produced by Spelling Television in the United States, and subsequently on various networks around the world. It is the first series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise... |
Duane | Episode: "Every Dream Has Its Price (Tag)" |
| 2007–2009 | The Naked Brothers Band The Naked Brothers Band The Naked Brothers Band may refer to:* Nat & Alex Wolff, neighborhood band ; a band based on the TV series ; a sibling duo... |
Dad/Mr. Wolff/Sonny Wolff | 34 episodes. Also co-executive producer |
Honors and awards
Wolff was honored as a Steinway Artist in June 2006. The Tic Code won awards at the Berlin International Film FestivalBerlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival , also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978...
, the Giffoni Film Festival
Giffoni Film Festival
The Giffoni International Film Festival is the largest children’s film festival in Europe, and possibly the World. It takes place in the little Italian town of Giffoni Valle Piana in Southern Italy, close to Salerno. Over 2,000 children attend the festival from 39 countries around the world...
and the Hamptons International Film Festival
Hamptons International Film Festival
Hamptons International Film Festival was founded to provide a forum for independent filmmakers from around the world to express their vision. The Festival is traditionally held for five days in mid-October in theatre venues from Montauk to Southampton and attracts roughly 15,000 visitors annually...
. Wolff and sons won the 2007 BMI Film and TV Award for the music on The Naked Brothers Band (TV series)
The Naked Brothers Band (TV series)
The Naked Brothers Band is an American television musical comedy created by Polly Draper. The show depicts the daily lives of Draper's sons, who lead a faux rock band from New York City. As a mockumentary, the storyline is a hyperbole of their real lives, and the fictional presence of a camera is...
.