NOW vs NOW

Is this killin or what?
NOW VS NOW IS JASON LINDNER, BABA ISRAEL, AVISHAI COHEN, PANAGIOTIS ANDREOU, AND MARK GUILIANA.
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Nica's Book

Ya know Monk's tune "Pannonica" or Horace Silver's tune "Nica's Dream"?  The names of these tunes and many others honor a women, Pannonica de Koenigswarter, who was a special friend to many of the Jazz's greatest artists starting in the mid 1950s throught to her death in 1988.

This week I found a book (published 2008) that represents a great legacy of her relationship with the music and her Jazz musician friends:

Three Wishes - An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats.  Compiled and photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter.  Foreward by Gary Giddens and Introduction by Nadine de Koenigswarter, Nica's grand niece.

The book's forward and especially the intro by Nadine will tell you why this woman deserves to have tunes named after her.  The rest of the book is a fascinating and collectively revealing compilation of photos and quotes from her jazz musician friends.  The quotes are in answer to her question: "If you had 3 wishes..."