Three Wishes

The three things that Horace Silver wished for were:

  1. “Immortality.”
  2. “To be rich.”
  3. “A baby.”

*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats – Complied and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter

THE WATCHFUL EYE

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Requisites

Hard Driving Jazz by the Cecil Taylor Quintet ‎was recorded in New York City on October 13, 1958 at United Artists Records. This hard bop and modal session was licensed by United to Dillard et Cie, Imp. and released in 1959 on La Voix De Son Maître in Paris, France.

The cover photography was taken by Tom Burnside and the design of the cover was made by Griner/Lewis, the recording engineer was Fernando Vargas, Tom Wilson was the session producer and the liner notes were written by François Postif.

Four tunes made up this session composed by Chuck Israels, Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke, Kenny Dorham, John Klenner and Sam Lewis. Double Clutching, Like Someone In Love,Shifting Down and Just Friends for a short 33:14.

The players were Chuck Israels on bass, Louis Hayes on drums, Cecil Taylor on piano, Kenny Dorham on trumpet and on tenor saxophone was Blue Train (John Coltrane).

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The Jazz Voyager

Next Stop: Berlin. The Jazz Voyager is going to have a listen to jazz at a small intimate 50 seat club at Donaustrasse 115 called Donau115 in the lively Neukölln district. Presenting top-quality straight-ahead and post-bop jazz on the ground floor of a building that was bombed in World War II, the floors above were torn down and rebuilt but the room Donau is original.

Admission is free but €5 donations encouraged for live music every Friday and Saturday, and most Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Beer is offered for €2.50 and the latest craze in drinks, Moscow Mules are €5. The club serves up often wildly original music is the operative word here and is said to be wunderbar. There is no phone but you can always go to donau115.de for more info. #wannabewhereyouare

GRIOTS GALLERY

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Three Wishes

Clark Terry said his three wishes would be:

  1. “To be assured of health, so as to have happiness and a long life.”
  2. “To be wealthy enough to never to have to worry about money.”
  3. “I would like to have something happen to everyone to abolish that old racist shit.”

*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats – Complied and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter

THE WATCHFUL EYE

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Saudade is an album by Brazilian composer Moacir Santos recorded in 1974 and released on the Blue Note label. The album was recorded at United Artists Studios in West Hollywood, California on March 5, 6 & 12, 1974.

The compositions that make up the album are Early Morning Love (Santos, Yanna Cotti) – 3:25, A Saudade Matta a Gente (Antonio Almeida, J. de Barro) – 6:10, Off and On (Santos, Cotti) – 3:37, The City of LA (Mark Levine) – 3:38, Suk Cha (Santos) – 4:06, Kathy (Santos, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) – 3:37, Haply-Happy (Santos, Petsye Powell) – 2:59, Amphibious (Santos, Assis) – 3:25, This Life (Santos, Cotti) – 2:33 and lastly What’s My Name (Santos, Evans, Livingston) – 3:07.

The players were Moacir Santos – alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, conductor, arranger, Steve Huffsteter – trumpet, flugelhorn, Benny Powell – trombone, Morris Repass – bass trombone, Sidney Muldrow – french horn, Ray Pizzi – bassoon, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute, piccolo, Jerome Richardson – soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, flute, alto flute, Mark Levine – piano, electric piano, arranger, Lee Ritenour – guitar, electric guitar, John Heard – bass, electric bass, Harvey Mason – drums, Mayuto Correa, Carmelo Garcia – conga, percussion, and Donald Alves, Mike Campbell, Jose Marino, Petsye Powell, Carmen Saveiros, Regina Werneck on background vocals.

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