Three Wishes
Al Timothy and the Baroness were talking one night when she asked him what his three wishes would be and responded with:
- “There’s one thing I wish I could be is a really great arranger, and a really great singing voice, and I’ll take care of the rest. I’ve been in this business over twenty years, you know, but if I had to start all over again, I’d do all the same things over again.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
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Three Wishes
Pannonica made an inquiry about three wishes when she was talking with Walter Miller and he responded with the following:
- “It should be very simple to answer. How do I start? Well, number one is freedom. I have never been actually able to accept the fact that I’ve ever been that way.”
- “Then, I’d like to be fully secured~towards my obligations to others, I mean. Neighbors, you know, sometimes you feel you have to run from them. You don’t have an answer for them. Though I usually have an answer.”
- “I wan to say that no one is really independent. Everyone is dependent on others. So I would think-how can I explain this? My life has been devoted to music. I don’t know. I’d like to further my studies. And yet most of the good people are naturally talented. There seems to be a conflict. You don’t know which way to start. It’s bad to be ignorant. I’d like to help the teenagers. They’re so fiery, so sensitive. You know? The kids, today? They don’t seem to be content, at all! I’d like to help them.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
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Three Wishes
Dexter Gordon was hanging out with Nica when the subject of three wishes came up and he shared with her his one wish:
- “The things I want you can’t put in your book.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
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Three Wishes
While the Baroness was in conversation with Teo Macero he was asked by her what three wishes he would make if given. He told her:
- “Peace of mind.”
- “To change the status of jazz. That is, to get rid of the stigma attached to jazz music. You know. A jazz musician is regarded as some kind of freak! This is something that has bugged me for a long, long time. Like, someone will come up to me and say, “Oh, so you’re a jazz musician?” And when I say< “Yes. A jazz musician and a composer,” they will look at me altogether differently. It would be marvelous if jazz musicians could be given a status equal to that or great figures of contemporary music.”
- “To have no problems with people recording. No problems in the studio.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
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Three Wishes
Reggie Johnson was asked by Nica of his three wishes if granted and what he answered with these three:
- “The first one would be to have the bass that I want – that’s a full-sized bass.”
- “And, well, the next would be to have my own group, and…”
- “To play with Miles would be the third! That’s all I want.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
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