Three Wishes

Nica’s request of Julian Priester led him to answering the question of three wishes with: 

    1. “The first one is a government~sponsored music program.”
    2. “I’d like to play with Monk.”
    3. “A change in this country’s economic system.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter

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Three Wishes

What Major “Mule” Holley told Pannonica when she asked him what his three wishes were was: 

    1. “I’d like to have every person I come in contact with understand my true meaning.”
    2. “I would like to be always comfortable: enough money to allow myself to work if I felt like it, in health and strength..”
    3. “I would like to be able to repay, or reimburse in some measure, everyone who has helped me progress in my life.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter

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Butch Warren responded to  the Baroness’s inquiry as to his three wishes if he were given them by saying: 

    1. “I don’t know. I don’t have nothing to wish for.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter

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Nica asked Khalil if given what would his three wishes be and he told her to his would be:

    1. “To live longer.”
    2. “And learn more.”
    3. “Let me see. I can’t put it into words, what I want. I know what it is, but I can’t put it into words.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter

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Sonny Stitt replied to the inquiry made by Nica as to his three wishes:

    1. “Peace among men.”
    2. “To play my music, and please everyone.”
    3. “And I want happiness. And nothing bad to happen to anyone – that’s my fourth and dearest wish.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter

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