Pat Mallinger was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he began playing the saxophone at the age of 11. He received his Jazz Studies degree in 1986 from North Texas State University where he was awarded the One O'clock Lab Band Scholarship. He performed while residing in Los Angeles, Dallas, Boston, and Japan, before establishing Chicago as his home in 1990. He is a co-leader of Sabertooth which has been the mainstay band at the Green Mill Lounge each Saturday night for 17 years.
He is also heard around town performing with the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, Bobby Lewis Quintet, and the Pat Mallinger Quartet to name a few. Pat performs concerts and festivals nationally and internationally both as a band leader and side man. His resume includes performances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Joe Williams, Nancy Wilson, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Harry Connick, Ramsey Lewis, Aretha Franklin, Rosemary Clooney, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Patti Austin, Manhattan Transfer, Gerald Wilson, Muhal Richard Abrams, Lalo Schifrin, Cab Calloway, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Reunion Band, Eddie Higgins, Junior Mance, Cedar Walton, Dave Brubeck, Marcus Roberts, Weldon Irving, Renee Rosness, Regina Carter, Kurt Elling, Jack McDuff, Joey DeFrancesco, Joe Lovano, Joshua Redman, Eric Alexander, Billy Harper, Jimmy Heath, Johnny Griffin, James Moody, Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Paquito D'Rivera, Nick Brignola, Franz Jackson, Von Freeman, Roscoe Mitchell, Buddy Defranco, Alvin Batiste, Slide Hampton, Curtis Fuller, Steve Turre, Clark Terry, Randy Brecker, Tom Harrell, Doc Severinsen, Roy Hargrove, Lester Bowie, Jon Faddis, Lou Soloff, Terell Stafford, Jim Rotondi, Marcus Belgrave, Lonnie Brooks, Big Time Sarah, Melvin Seals, Vince Welnick, Umphrey's McGee, and Dark Star Orchestra. Pat has toured with the Charles Earland Band, Artie Shaw Orchestra, and Woody Herman Orchestra. As an original member of the Ravinia Jazz Mentor program, founded by Ramsey Lewis, Pat has mentored the underserved inner city youth through jazz performance and clinics in Chicago Public High Schools for fifteen years.
He also teaches for Columbia College in a similar capacity as a Jazz Mentor at Burley Elementary in a program created by Jon Faddis entitled Louis Armstrong Legacy Project and Celebration. Pat also teaches privately to students enrolled at the American Conservatory of Music. Additionally, he is the director of the Concert Jazz Band at Merit School of Music iｎChicago.
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パット・マリンガーは生まれ育ったミネソータ州セントポール市で、サクソフォンを１１歳で始めた。1986年にはジャズスタディーズ専攻でノーステキサス大学をOne O'clock Lab Band奨学金を使用して卒業。ロスアンゼルス、ダラス、ボストン、日本を経て、1990年にはパフォーマンスの拠点をシカゴに置いた。１７年間グリーンミルラウンジの土曜日のメインステージを勤めるSabertoothの共同リーダーである。シカゴジャズアンサンブル、ボビールイスクインテット、パット・マリンガーカルテットを始めとしたグループへの参加をシカゴで行っている。マリンガーはコンサートやフェスティバルでバンドリーダーとサイドマン両方として活躍している。
また、ラムシー・ルイスが設立したラヴィニアジャズメンタープログラムの初代メンバーとして、ジャズパフォーマンスやクリニックを通して、シカゴの市立高校の低所得の生徒を指導を１５年に渡ってしている。
