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Monk & Pannonica: An American Story

Paris, 1954. The story of the meeting, known thanks to the fortuitous discovery of a forgotten notebook, full of notes and photographs, between a white British aristocrat, Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, writer and jazz patron, and a talented black pianist, Thelonious Monk, one of the best bebop jazz musicians of all time; a prodigious union of wills that overcame the most extreme prejudices of the very conservative US society.

Top Cast

  • Thelonious Monk

    Thelonious Monk

    Self - Jazz Musician (archive footage)

  • Pannonica de Koenigswarter

    Pannonica de Koenigswarter

    Self - Jazz Patron (archive footage)

  • Archie Shepp

    Archie Shepp

    Self

  • Matthew Shipp

    Matthew Shipp

    Self

Overview

Paris, 1954. The story of the meeting, known thanks to the fortuitous discovery of a forgotten notebook, full of notes and photographs, between a white British aristocrat, Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, writer and jazz patron, and a talented black pianist, Thelonious Monk, one of the best bebop jazz musicians of all time; a prodigious union of wills that overcame the most extreme prejudices of the very conservative US society.

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