Three Wishes

When asked what his three wishes would be, Chuck Wayne answered with:

    1. “The funny part is, I really… you know, frankly? I can’t think of any! Because frankly, I like things the way they are. I really don’t want to be rich, I love my wife, I have wonderful children, and I have a certain amount of security, which is substantial enough for me. I really don’t care for anything else. Between music and my wife and kids’ love, life is pretty good as it is. There are so few other things that count. Would a million dollars help me play a good chorus? Or give me more to the one I love?”

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

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The Baroness inquired of Jo Jones as to what his three wishes would be if granted and he responded with this simple statement:

    1. “I have only one wish:  to play ten more years.”

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

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Once Nica questioned Milt Sealey about three wishes he replied with:

    1. “I wish I could be immortal in jazz. You know, go down with a nice name.”

    2. “I’d wish that my family ~ my wife, my child, and myself ~ would live a happy and healthy life.”

    3. “I wish that people… that I live to see the day when people will accept one another more humanly. As people, you know? Period. Well, that’s it. You know?”

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

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In response to the question of three wishes by Baroness de Koenigswarter, Terry Gibbs told her the two he had:

    1. “I would like to have access to all the money I can have. I’d like to be a billionaire!”

    2. “I’d like to have my own club and play when I feel like playing.”

    3. “A million dollars. If I had all these I wouldn’t need to wish for anything for my wife and family, because they’d be covered and it would be Utopia.”

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

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    When Ernie Wilkins was approached by Nica and asked what his three wishes would be, he told her:

      1. “The first would be the ideal jazz club where I could use all the jazz groups I like, and where we’d never go out of business.”

      2. “The second would be a recording company the same way, where I’d could use all the musicians I like, and which would never go out of business.”

      3. “A million dollars. If I had all these I wouldn’t need to wish for anything for my wife and family, because they’d be covered and it would be Utopia.”

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

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