Three Wishes
When Pannonica approached J. R. Monterose with the question of three wishes if granted what would he ask for he told her:
- “Play, play, play.”
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Three Wishes
The inquiry of three wishes arose during a conversation between the Baroness and Al Cohn. His response to her question of fulfillment was:
- “A healthy world. What I mean by that is a world of peace and goodwill.”
- “Secondly, I’d wish for a long life, and a quick death, and the same for my wife.”
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Samuel Benskin was born in The Bronx, New York on September 27, 1922 and made his professional debut around 1940 as piano accompanist to singer and guitarist Bardu Ali. He worked throughout the 1940s with among other jazz musicians Stuff Smith, Benny Morton and Don Redman. The 1950s witnessed Sammy leading his own piano trio, appearing as a soloist and accompanying singers Roy Hamilton, Dinah Washington and Al Hibbler. In 1954 he also joined a group, The Three Flames, which also featured Tiger Haynes.
By the end of the decade with a band credited as The Spacemen, Sammy recorded an instrumental, The Clouds, written and produced by Julius Dixson for his Alton record label. A departure from jazz, the song’s original vocals were removed and presented as an instrumental. It went to No. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart, and No. 41 on the pop chart. The song was the first number one on any chart released by an African-American owned independent record label, predating Motown’s first No. 1 by a year.
From the 1960s Benskin worked primarily as a vocal coach, arranger and producer. In 1986, he recorded an album in Paris, France for Black & Blue Records, These Foolish Songs. Pianist Sammy Benskin transitioned in Teaneck, New Jersey on August 26, 1992 at 69.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Romano Bruno Mussolini was born on September 26, 1927 in Villa Carpena, Forlì,Italy. He was the fourth child and youngest son of Il Duce, Benito Mussolini. He studied music as a child, playing classical pieces with his father on the violin. After World War II, he started playing jazz under the alias Romano Full.
By the mid-1950s, he formed a trio and in 1956 released a self-titled record featuring Lilian Terry on vocals and trumpeter Nunzio Rotondo on RCA Records. The Sixties saw him form the Romano Mussolini All Stars, which became one of Italy’s foremost jazz bands.
The All Stars recorded a well-received record Jazz Allo Studio 7 in 1963 with At the Santa Tecla following a year later. Romano’s band toured internationally with Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Helen Merrill and Chet Baker, among others. In the 1990s he recorded two more albums, Perfect Alibi and Soft and Swing.
His playing style has been described as “like a slightly melancholic Oscar Peterson. Occasionally inspired, he was always efficient; he made the refrains run on time.
Pianist Romano Mussolini, who was also a painter and film producer, transitioned on February 3, 2006, at the age of 78, in a hospital in Rome, Italy from heart problems.
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Three Wishes
Zoot Sims was given the proposition of three wishes by Pannonica that if they could be fulfilled what would they be and he said this to her:
- “Peace of mind.”
- “Woman I could live with.”
- “Piece of ground.”
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