Three Wishes

Baroness Pannonica inquired of Stan Getz that if granted three wishes what would he ask for and he told her: 

    1. “Justice.”

    2. “Turth.”

    3. “Beauty..”

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

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Upon request by Pannonica as to his three wishes Danny Quebec~West responded by telling her: 

    1. “That the United States government… I wish that the capitalistic system be like the socialistic system in subsidizing the starving musicians, for art’s sake.”

    2. “My second wish ~ speaking of a field not concerning music ~ I wish that the stigma on jazz musicians concerning drugs… that the world have socialization of medicine, and therefore that we canget all we want.”

    3. “I hope when they do decide to let me be heardagain after such a long layoff, I hope that I can reach from their toes to their heads, and explode every minute cell in their brain ~ meaning the public, being that I feel that I have been treated very unjustly music~wise..”

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

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The Baroness asked Donald Byrd what his three wishes would be and he replied: 

    1. “Health.”

    2. “Education.”

    3. “Long life.”

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

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When inquired, Joe Knight told Nica that his three wishes would be: 

    1. “I would like to be inordinately healthy, to give me the strength to do anything of which I am capable to the fullest extent.”

    2. “I would like to have a certain peace of mind – which could be obtainable from the result of number one.”

    3. “I would like to develop, within the span of my lifetime, the art of music.”

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

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Pannonica asked Steve Lacy what he would wish for if he was given three and he told her: 

    1. “The diversion of all war funds into an exploration of the potentialities of the mind.”

    2. “Universal comprehension of art.”

    3. “The end of fear.”

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

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