Three Wishes
The Baroness approached Al Grey and presented him with the question of three wishes and he replied to her:
- “To have happiness.”
- “Knowledge.”
- “Understanding. I have no more to say.”
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Samuel D. Margolis was born on November 1, 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts. Early in his career he played locally with Shad Collins, Vic Dickenson, Bobby Hackett, Nat Pierce, and Rex Stewart.
Between 1954 and 1958 Sam worked extensively with Ruby Braff and as sidemen for other musicians, including Pee Wee Russell. He would continue working intermittently with Braff for several decades.
In 1970 Margolis appeared briefly in the parade scene in the Dick Van Dyke movie Some Kind of a Nut. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he played often in the New York area, with Ed Polcer, Buzzy Drootin, Max Kaminsky, Roy Eldridge, Tony Bennet, Claude Hopkins, Dill Jones, Vic Dickenson, and Red Balaban.
Clarinetist and saxophonist Sam Margolis, who near the end of his life moved to Deerfield Beach, Florida, transitioned from prostate cancer on March 27, 1996.
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Charles Burchell was born in London, England on October 30, 1925 and began learning the ukulele, then guitar. Then he heard an Artie Shaw record that inspired him to take up the clarinet and play jazz. Switching to alto saxophone, he started his own quintet in 1943, then tried tenor saxophone before he was drafted into the Royal Air Force. Transferred to the army in 1944, he played in Greece with the British Divisional Band.
Following his discharge in 1947 Charles worked in London with the Toni Antone Big Band. By 1949 he had given up full-time musicianship for work in a factory in order to not perform music he did not like in order to make a living.
A disciple of Lennie Tristano and a devoted admirer of Warne Marsh, he continued to play part-time, leading his own quintet for more than 20 years. Burchell has guested with Clark Terry, Emily Remler and Nathan Davis, and recording for Peter Ind’s Wave label. He played with Ind in the group that supported Tristano on his only UK concert, at Harrogate in 1968.
Saxophonist Charles Burchell, who went by Chas and has been touted as one of the great unsung heroes of British jazz, transitioned from a heart attack on June 3, 1986.
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Three Wishes
Eddie Locke had the same three answers for Pannonica his three wishes when her inquiring mind asked:
- “I don’t want to look like Blue*.”
- “I don’t want to look like Blue!”
- “I don’t want to look like Blue!”
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Luděk Hulan was born on October 11, 1929 in Prague, Czechoslovakia and started his career as a founder-member of the amateur Hootie Club ensemble in 1948. In the early Fifties he performed in various professional jazz ensembles and helped organize jam sessions in Prague. From 1953 to 1957 he moved to Brno and played double bass with the Gustav Brom Orchestra.
Upon his return to Prague he co-founded Studio 5, which later became a part of The Dance Orchestra of Czechoslovak Radio. Studio 5, one of the country’s most important modern jazz ensembles, disbanded in 1961. Then Hulan founded his next band, The Jazz Studio, which often performed his own short compositions. The late 1960s he still collaborated with the Jazz Orchestra of Czechoslovak Radio and actively participated in Czech musical life.
He was one of the pioneers of the Jazz and Poetry movement which focused on cross-connections between various spheres of the Arts. In his Jazz Studio, Luděk collaborated with many important jazz instrumentalists, among them tenor saxophonist Milan Ulrich and trumpeter Richard Kubernát.
Following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 he emigrated to Switzerland, but couldn’t find any work connected with music and soon returned while his wife and daughter remained abroad. Listed as politically undesirable he had to organize night-time jam sessions in the poetic wine bar Viola, founded a new band, Jazz Sanatorium with former colleagues from Jazz Studio, and helped its younger members in their careers.
He also found work – occasional at first – with the Linha Singers ensemble. In 1972 the Traditional Jazz Studio invited him to record with the New Orleans clarinetist Albert Nicholas. He also performed with the American clarinetist Tony Scott, and prepared a TV series, The Jazz Herbarium. He then organized the Jazz Quiz as part of his Jazz Sanatorium, using American films, recordings and literature.
Double bassist Luděk Hulan, an important exponent of Czech jazz in the second half of the 20th century, transitioned in Prague on February 22, 1979 under unhappy circumstances, breaking a rib in a stairway fall which pierced a lung. Unaware of the nature or extent of his injury, he went to bed as usual, not to awaken.
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