Three Wishes

Nica questioned Yasuhivo Koyama about his three wishes if by some miracle he was to be granted them and he told her he would wish for:  

1. “To realize my special ideas. Especially concerned to express my original ideas and my own theory.”
2. “To use the improvisation in proper order.”
3. “To pray, so to work in best places.”

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

Yasuhivo Koyama

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Three Wishes

Sun Ra had three wishes for the Baroness when she inquired what his would be:  

1. “A flexible instrument which could reflect every mood of any being, even a cat’s or a bird’s.”
2. “A center where I would be free to present what I am actually doing to the world in the proper manner. Lights, shadows, colors, music would all be working at the same time, and it would be a synopsis of cosmic things so concentrated that, in an hour, you could be enlightened about the entire universe.”
3. “The means to do things precisely, directly, and unhampered.”

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

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Three Wishes

Nica never missed a chance to travel and while in conversation with Jimmy Rushing she asked if he was given three wishes that would be granted what would they be and he said:  

1. “I’m doing one of my wishes right now! Being in Japan.”
2. “If I had my life to live over, I wouldn’t mind. I’ve always enjoyed every part of it.”
3. “One thing I’d like to see is colored shows come back like it used to be in the twenties. Like Cotton Club days ~ entertainers going from table to table! And I’d like to see colored shows on TV, at the right times: not too early or too late. To see a complete show and band, and see the reactions of young people.”

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

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Three Wishes

Whenever the the ladies got together Pannonica would always make it a point to ask them what their three wishes would be and this time Terri Thornton told her:  

1. “There would be only one: To get closer to myself. And that means to get closer to God. And that way all wishes will come true.”

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

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Three Wishes

When the subject of three wishes was broached, Willie Ruff told Nica he had only one that he would like to be granted and that was:  

1. 1. “I wouldn’t have three wishes. I would only have one and that’s to be forty. Because by then I will have everything I need.”

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

Willie Ruff: September 1, 1931 | French Horn, Double Bass

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