Three Wishes

Nica was inquisitive about the three wishes Albert Mangelsdorff would request, so she asked and he told her:

  1. “First, I vant to live long enough to get my playing, so I vould be satisfied.”
  2. “I vould say, that the life of a jazz musician vouldn’t interfere vith family life.”
  3. “I vish that people all over the vorld vould get smart enough that there vould be peace forever.”

“I should have made that the first vish.”

*Dialect transcribed by Nica de Koenigswarter

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

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