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Don Wolf, Composer/Lyricist

Don Wolf (Donald E. Wolf) was a composer who wrote music and/or lyrics for around 500 jazz songs. Not all were published and two were major hits, namely Azure Te and Corner Pocket (Until I Met You), the latter being co-written with Freddie Greene.

Mr. Wolf was born and raised on Manhattan Island in New York City, NY. He grew up (most of his childhood) in his parent's Beresford Apartments residence on Manahattan's Upper West Side. As his musical taste and talent grew he spent more and more time uptown in Harlem listening to and then befriending luminaries such as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and many others.

His focus and taste ran more to big band and jump blues, less toward be bop.

His two biggest hits, Azure Te and Corner Pocket/Until I Met You have been covered by Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Ernestine Anderson, Tito Puente and others.

Mr. Wolf also wrote/edited jokes for a speaker's newsletter of some repute in the 1970's - 1990's called Jokes Unlimited, which he founded with his partner in the venture, Stan Davis.

Mr. Wolf attended Horace Mann Prep and Ohio State University. He applied at Harvard and was told by Harvard officials upon a pre-admission visit that he was "a little too Broadway" for Harvard, a comment that was inferred by Mr. Wolf to mean, "a little too Jewish".