Three Wishes

Sol Fisch was approached by the Baroness and he told her his three wishes were: 

    1. “To help elevate jazz to an accepted standard point.”

    2. “To play my horn as well as I want to.”

    3. “To always meet chicks as grooovy as Nica.”

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

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When Nica asked Louis Hayes if he had three wishes what would they be he said his three wishes would be: 

    1. “To stay here until I get tired of being here.”

    2. “To be free.”

    3. “To be loved.”

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

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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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