English jazz bassist, born August 1954. Started musical career as a treble vocalist, later switched to jazz bass. 　　Simon Woolf was born in August 1954 into a musical family. He sang fromearly childhood and learnt to play recorders, piano and cello. Only after a Royal Festival Hall appearance with Joan Sutherland and a successful BBC audition the following day did he take singing lessons,with Grayston Burgess, the director of the Purcell Consort of Voices.These studies enabled Simon to develop an unique repertoire of songs.about childhood, never previously sung by children. Throughout two packed years until his voice broke he was in constant demand for the concert platform and operatic stage, radio and television, whilst continuing his general education at St. Dunstan's College, London.Simon Woolf's recordings include medieval motets, Purcell and Handel,