Rick Margitza, saxophonist, kindly agreed to continue this series of the famous Proust Questionnaire, revisited in the Couleurs Jazz spirit.
An original way to take the first steps into the world of these remarkable jazz musicians, artists of our time.
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– What, for you, is the ultimate form of musical misery?
When a hit song is mistaken for music, and music for profitable noise.
– Where would you like to live?
The Basque Country.
– What is your idea of perfect earthly happiness?
Eating a revuelto de hongos and chipirones in San Sebastián.
– Which false notes are you most indulgent towards?
The really false ones, when they are played with absolute conviction.
– Who are your favorite heroes in fiction?
Harry Bosch. Aurel the Consul.
– Who is your favorite classical musician?
Vladimir Horowitz.
– Your favorite heroines or divas in real life?
Rigoberta Menchú. My mother-in-law.
– Your heroines in fiction?
Calamity Jane. Cruella (One Hundred and One Dalmatians).
– Your favorite painter?
Frida Kahlo. Pierre Alechinsky. Wallace Ting.
– Your favorite jazz musician?
Michael Brecker.
– Your favorite quality in a man?
The power of self-destruction.
– Your favorite quality in a woman?
Motherhood.
– Your favorite virtue?
Gratitude.
– Your favorite occupation?
Playing the piano.
– Who would you have liked to be?
An octopus.
– The main trait of your character?
A sense of fairness.
– What do you appreciate most in your friends?
Simplicity, faithfulness, loyalty.
– Your principal fault?
Remaining human.
– Your dream of happiness?
A Berthillon pistachio-and-chocolate ice cream one August day, when the Parisians have deserted the city.
– Your greatest misfortune?
Missing Bill Evans in concert at the Espace Cardin in 1979 by a whisker. I was fifteen. I remember thinking, “Do I go, do I not go?” At fifteen, living with your parents, I must have had homework to hand in or something of the sort, and I thought, If I don’t go this time, I’ll go next year when Bill Evans plays in Paris again…
– What would you like to be?
Someone who finally knows what they would like to be, which would already be considerable progress.
– Your favorite color?
Blue.
– Your favorite flower?
The cactus.
– Your favorite bird?
The eagle.
– Your favorite prose writers?
Sylvain Tesson.
– Your favorite poets?
Prévert, Apollinaire.
– Your heroes in real life?
Astronauts.
– Your heroes in history?
Martin Luther King. Mahatma Gandhi.
– Your favorite names?
Names that carry music within them before they even have a meaning. Marina. Luna. Céleste.
– What do you hate above all else?
Bad faith.
– Which reform do you admire most?
Any reform worthy of the name must begin by reforming those who claim to be carrying it out.
– Which gift of nature would you like to possess?
The gift of ubiquity.
– How would you like to die?
In good health.
– Your definition of jazz?
Afro-American music of improvisational origin, with swing.
– The present state of your mind?
If nothing is less certain than uncertainty, nothing is more certain than what is equally sure.
– And finally, your motto?
Inertia is on its way, and nothing will stop it.
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– Your Signature Title?
©Photo portrait G. Saix
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