#anthony cox

[garadinervi]

The Stone by Anthony Cox, Eye Bags by Yoko Ono, The Paradox, New York, NY, 1966 [Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Gift of the artist, 2002]

[jazzdailyblog]

Joe Lovano's "Quartets: Live at the Village Vanguard" — A Masterpiece of Jazz Improvisation

Introduction: Jazz has always been about pushing boundaries, reinventing tradition, and creating moments of pure spontaneity. Few live recordings encapsulate this spirit better than Joe Lovano’s “Quartets: Live at the Village Vanguard.” Released in 1995, the double CD stands as a testament to Lovano’s artistic prowess and his ability to thrive in diverse musical settings. Featuring two…

Joe Lovano's "Quartets: Live at the Village Vanguard" — A Masterpiece of Jazz Improvisation

[disease]

“YOKO ONO AS THE STONE” ANTHONY COX, @ JUDSON GALLERY FRED W. MCDARRAH // NYC, 1966 [gelatin silver print | 23.3 × 34.5 cm.]

[agoodsongeveryday]

Day Six Hundred and Five

Water spirit feelin' Springin' round my head Makes me feel glad That I'm not dead

[thebeatleaesthetic]

What is possibly the last pictures of John Lennon with Kyoko Chan Cox, Yoko Ono’s daughter from her second marriage with Tony Cox. This would’ve been April 1971 in Majorca, Spain.

After Yoko and Tony’s divorce, neither won sole custody. Yet Cox became increasingly reluctant to let Yoko and her new husband spend time with Kyoko, and finally refused to permit it at all.  For a year before the Lennons came to America, they had been chasing Mr. Cox and Kyoko around Europe. In Majorca, Spain, the Lennons caught up with them and spirited Kyoko off to their hotel; but Mr. Cox called the police, and a Spanish court gave the child back to him. The incident added to his fear that the Lennons wanted to take her away from him for good. After their failed visit to Majorca, Yoko was awarded permanent custody by the United States Virgin Islands court. But, the legal battle would go on as Tony joined a religious cult known as The Walk and refused to reveal Kyoko’s location or allow Yoko and John to visit. Kyoko was also taught by Tony that she was rescued from her mother, who “was involved in drugs and the occult” and “stood for corruption”. Yoko and John continued searching for Kyoko for much of the 1970s. Kyoko wouldn’t reunite with her mother until 1998. 

[From the 1980 Playboy Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono:]

ONO: "I lost Kyoko when she was about five...”

PLAYBOY: "What happened when she was five?"

ONO: "John and I got together and I separated from my ex-husband." (Tony Cox) "He took Kyoko away. It became a case of parent kidnapping and we tried to get her back..." 

LENNON: "...We chased him all over the world. God knows where he went. So if you're reading this, Tony, let's grow up about it. It's gone. We don't want to chase you anymore, because we've done enough damage... It was like we were after an escaped convict..."

ONO: "...She is totally frightened. There was a time in Spain when a lawyer and John thought that we should kidnap her."

LENNON: (sighing) "I was just going to commit hara-kiri first."

ONO: "And we did kidnap her and went to court. The court did a very sensible thing... the judge took her into a room and asked her which one of us she wanted to go with. Of course, she said Tony. We had scared her to death."

[the-cosmic-empire]

John and Yoko with Yoko’s daughter, Kyoko and Anthony Cox, Yoko’s second husband, (John was her third) and his new wife at the time Melinde, photographed during a press conference in Aalborg, Denmark, on the 5th January 1970. John and Yoko had gone to Denmark to spend the new year with Kyoko, but when local press found out John was there, they wanted to know why - hence the need for the press conference. 

Pic: Keystone-France / Gamma-Keystone / Getty

[thebeatleaesthetic]

The Ono Lennons holding Kyoko (circa 1969). 

If you didn’t know the story:

Kyoko was Yoko’s daughter from a previous marriage. After a legal battle with her ex-husband, Anthony Cox, Yoko was awarded full custody of her daughter in about 1969. In 1971, Cox joined a religious cult known as the Church of the Living Word, or "The Walk,” and vanished with the 8-year-old Kyoko in violation of the custody order. They then moved around the country to avoid being found. Despite public pleas from Yoko and John for Kyoko’s return, Yoko would not be contacted by Anthony and Kyoko until after John’s death in 1980, when they still did not reveal their location. It wouldn’t be until 1994 that the 31-year-old Kyoko made contact with Yoko herself.

“Yoko's daughter is not allowed to visit us because, uh, her ex-husband won't let her see him--let her see her own daughter. All Yoko wishes is that now and again, Kyoko could be brought to that house to spend some time with her mother and with my son, Julian, because it's a beautiful home and we have eight to ten children living there that belong to the staff. And, uh, we're not allowed to see our daughter and, uh, Yoko's going mad as any mother would because her daughter's been withheld from her. And that's all we have to say about that. But that's the house waiting for her if you're watching, Kyoko.”

[- John Lennon, when he appeared with Yoko Ono on The Dick Cavett Show, 1971]

[Ono said] “It was very hard. I remembered [Kyoko] as a little girl and I kept buying her small beautiful cashmere sweaters. They piled up in my dressing room until someone said to me, ‘Do you realise she’s now 26, she’s probably larger than you, why are you keeping those little things?’ It was terrible. I didn’t know where she was. It was a kidnapping and a very difficult situation. She had so much love for her father who took care of her all that time, and he had said very clearly that if she searched me out she would never see him again.

“She got married and before they were going to have a child the husband said — he’s a very intelligent guy — you have to say hello to your mother before you have the baby because the baby is going to wonder where the grandmother is. So she came.” Now Ono has two grandchildren. Is she close to them? “In a way,” she says.

[- The Telegraph interview with Yoko Ono, 2012]

[strathshepard]

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