Although his earliest band sides were quite primitive, his 1926-27 recordings for Victor with his Red Hot Peppers are among the most exciting of his career.
Gary Snyder looked at me intently and said "it means you're fiercely from here. Mortons 1923-24 recordings of piano solos introduced his style, repertoire and brilliance. I told him it had been with me most of my life, that it chose me rather than me choosing it, and that it might be some kind of variant on the name of a small animal called an aardwolf - "aard" like "erde" meaning "earth". When I told him my name he cocked an eyebrow and asked about it. A great resource for information about pianos.
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The UK Piano Page: Sponsored by the Association of Blind Piano Tuners. The next piece in my March and Two Step series is up This one is 'A Signal From Mars' by Raymond Taylor (and arranged by E.T. Paul Morris Music: Home page of organ and player-piano enthusiast Paul Morris. One day when poet Gary Snyder came to town, I bought a copy of his magnum opus "Mountains and Rivers Without End", went to a public book signing and had him inscribe it. Links to sites with a player piano or musical theme: The Pianola Forum: A UK-based discussion forum for player pianos, rolls and related topics. Over the years I came to prefer the lower case. Over the years I doubled it because people would ask what's your name, then what's your last name, and I'd just keep saying arwulf.
Within months this had morphed, with the 'o' becoming a 'u', and wulf preceded by 'ar'. I was out for a nocturnal stroll with a couple of girls, looked up at the sky and one of them said to me "don't move - your shadow looks like a wolf howling at the moon." So they took to calling me Wolf, as did a lot of other people I knew at the time. My name came to me when I was about fourteen years old.