Three Wishes
Replying to the Baroness’s inquiry of three wishes Hank Jones only had one:
- “To be the top, the greatest in the world on my instrument.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats – Complied and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter”
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Morning Star is an album by flautist Hubert Laws recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey between September and November 1972. Produced by Creed Taylor, arranged and conducted by Don Sebesky, the album was released on Taylor’s CTI label, only thirty-five minutes and forty-six seconds long.
Laws contributes three originals on this album with one traditional tune and two borrowed where noted: Morning Star (Rodgers Grant), Let Her Go, Where Is The Love (Ralph MacDonald, William Salter), No More, Amazing Grace (Traditional) and What Do You Think of This World Now?
The players were substantial and included Hubert Laws – flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo; Alan Rubin, Marvin Stamm – trumpet, flugelhorn; Garnett Brown – trombone; James Buffington – French horn, Phil Bodner – clarinet, flute, alto flute; Romeo Penque – flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo, English horn, Jack Knitzer – bassoon; Bob James – electric piano; John Tropea – guitar; Ron Carter – bass; Billy Cobham – drums; Dave Friedman – vibraphone, percussion; Ralph MacDonald – percussion; Harry Cykman, Max Ellen, Paul Gershman, Emanuel Green, Harry Lookofsky, David Nadien, Gene Orloff, Elliot Rosoff, Irving Spice – violin; George Koutzen, Charles McCracken, Lucien Schmit – cello; Gloria Agostini – harp; Lani Groves, Eloise Laws, Debra Laws, Tasha Thomas – vocal; and Don Sebesky – arranger, conductor.
The cover photograph was taken by Peter Turner and the cover design was by Bob Ciano.
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Three Wishes
Wes Montgomery’s response to Nica’s query was:
- “Happiness.”
- “No discrimination whatsoever.”
- “Peace”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats – Complied and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter”
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We Free Kings is a 1961 LP by the jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk. His quartet works through a set of bluesy post-bop numbers, with equal bop and soul. The cover photograph was shot by Marvin Glick and the album length is thirty-eight minutes and forty seconds.
To bring this project to fruition he utilized two different bassists and two different pianists. The personnel were: Roland Kirk on tenor saxophone, manzello, flute, stritch saxophone, Charlie Persip on drums, Richard Wyands on piano on tracks 3-5 & 9, Art Davis on double bass on tracks 3-5 & 9, Hank Jones on piano for tracks 1-2 & 6-8 and Wendell Marshall on bass for tracks 1-2 & 6-8.
All of the compositions are by Roland Kirk except track #2 which was composed by Sam Coslow and Arthur Johnston, and track #5 composed by Charlie Parker. The title track, a Kirk composition, is a variation on the Christmas carol “We Three Kings”.
The nine songs that follow were recorded in New York on August 16-17, 1961 for the Mercury record label. The CD editions of the album include a different version of the Parker tune Blues for Alice.
Three for the Festival, Moon Song, A Sack Full of Soul, The Haunted Melody, Blues for Alice, We Free Kings, You Did It, You Did It, Some Kind of Love and My Delight.
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Three Wishes
When Charles Mingus was questioned of his three wishes he stated:
- “I have no wishes! No wishes at all. Well, I wouldn’t mind having enough money to pay my bills. But that’s absolutely all.”
- “I’ve changed.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats – Complied and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter”
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