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Nica and Monk

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Her father called her Pannonica, which was the name of a butterfly. Her name defines her.

She was born a Rothschild and died a jazz baroness. At the time she was presented at court and her marriage to Baron Jules de Koenigswarter, a handsome French diplomat, was a matter left to her ambitious mother. She was used to that.

In 1948, however, something happened. On his way to the airport after a visit to New York, Nica stopped to visit a friend, jazz pianist Teddy Wilson, who played him a recording of Round Midnight by a then unknown jazz pianist, Thelonious Monk.

When she listened to him a form of electric infatuation occurred in her, she was bewitched. After missing her plane, she never went home again. She left her husband and five children, moved into a suite at the Stanhope Hotel and devoted herself to trying to meet the man who had made this extraordinary record.

For a long season he followed the erratic Monk. When only one thought was in the air: did he live up to what he had dreamed of? "Oh yes," he said, "he was the most beautiful man I had ever seen in my life".

From that moment on, he was not to return. For the next 28 years, Nica devoted her life to Thelonious Monk. And she was sure he did nothing wrong. He was a genius, pure and simple, and there was nothing, not money, not castles, nothing, that was above Monk. His family sealed his name with a steel door, and if you asked them they would reply "he's vulgar", "he's the Peggy Guggenheim of jazz". Monk, Monk's wife Nellie , and Nica formed a ménage whose main purpose was to keep the composer well, as he was bipolar in addition to drugs.

But Pannonica, who was called Nica, lived next door to Monk for 38 years, and yet he lived with his wife Nellie. No one knows if it was a torrid love affair. But those who knew them say that although she was in love, if it had been sex, it wouldn't have lasted so long. She was not a sad groupee, her heart was at the very centre of the story. She was the lover of important jazz musicians and Charlie Parker died in her hotel room watching a series on television.

She had songs written for her, nearly went to jail for defending Monk who was carrying marijuana, and played herself in the Clint Eastwood-directed film about the musician.

She paid rent to many musicians, took their instruments out of pawnshops, ferried them to concerts in her silver-blue Bentley and invited them to share her home when times were hard, which they often were. "I realised they were all in great need of help," he once said. "I couldn't stand there with them and just watch and listen." In the face of her family's disapproval, she lent support to prominent musicians - among them Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus and Art Blake- as to strangers. She became inextricably linked to Monk. She fell in love with the music of the great bebop priest in 1952, and two years later - when he was 34 and she was 40 - they began a relationship whose essence still defies analysis and which ended only with his death.

At Monk's funeral, the two women shared the bench as two widows.

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Su padre la llamó Pannonica, que era el nombre de una mariposa. Su nombre la define.

Nació siendo Rothschild y murió siendo la baronesa del jazz. En su momento la presentaron en la corte y su matrimonio con el barón Jules de Koenigswarter, un diplomático francés guapo, fue una cuestión que se dejaba en manos de su ambiciosa madre. Estaba acostumbrada a eso.

En 1948, sin embargo, algo sucedió. En su camino al aeropuerto después de una visita a Nueva York, Nica se detuvo para visitar a un amigo, el pianista de jazz Teddy Wilson, quien le puso una grabación de Round Midnigth por un pianista de jazz entonces desconocido, Thelonious Monk.

Cuando lo escuchaba una forma de enamoramiento eléctrico ocurrió en ella, estaba embrujada. Después de haber perdido su avión, ella nunca fue a casa de nuevo. Abandonó a su marido y sus cinco hijos, se mudó a una suite en el hotel Stanhope y se dedicó a tratar de conocer al hombre que había hecho este disco extraordinario.

Durante una larga temporada siguió al errático Monk. Cuando solo un pensamiento estaba en el aire: ¿estaba a la altura de lo que había soñado? “Oh sí, dijo, era el hombre más hermoso que había visto en mi vida”.

A partir de ese momento, no iba a volver. Durante los siguientes 28 años, Nica dedicó su vida a Thelonious Monk. Y estaba segura de que no hacía nada malo. Era un genio, pura y simplemente, y no había nada, ni el dinero, ni los castillos, nada, que estuviera por encima de Monk. Su familia selló con una puerta de acero su nombre, y si se les preguntaba contestaban “es vulgar”, “es la Peggy Guggenheim del jazz”. Monk, Nellie, la mujer de Monk, y Nica formaron un ménage cuya principal finalidad era mantener al compositor para que estuviera bien, ya que además de las de las drogas, era bipolar.

Pero Pannonica, a la que se llamaba Nica, vivió durante 38 años al lado de Monk, y sin embargo él convivía con su mujer Nellie. Nadie sabe si fue una tórrida historia de amor. Pero los que los conocieron dicen que aunque ella estaba enamorada si hubiera sido sexo, no hubiera durado tanto. No fue una groupee triste, su corazón estaba en el centro mismo de la historia. Fue amante de importantes músicos de jazz y Charlie Parker murió en su habitación del hotel viendo una serie en televisión.

Tuvo canciones escritas para ella, estuvo a punto de entrar en la cárcel por defender a Monk que llevaba marihuana e hizo de ella misma en la película sobre el músico que dirigió Clint Eastwood.

Ella pagó el alquiler a muchos músicos, sacó sus instrumentos de casas de empeño, les transportaba a los conciertos en su Bentley azul plateado y los invitó a compartir su casa cuando los tiempos eran difíciles, que lo eran a menudo. “Me di cuenta de que todos ellos tenían una gran necesidad de ser ayudados”, dijo una vez. “No podía estar allí con ellos y simplemente ver y oír.” Ante la desaprobación de su familia, prestó apoyo a los músicos prominentes – entre ellos Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus y Art Blake– como a desconocidos. Quedó indisolublemente unida a Monk. Se enamoró de la música del gran sacerdote de bebop en 1952, y dos años más tarde -cuando él tenía 34 y ella era 40- comenzaron una relación cuya esencia sigue desafiando el análisis y que terminó sólo con su muerte.

En el funeral de Monk, las dos mujeres compartieron el banco como dos viudas.

Fuente: Gladys Palmera por Gladys Palmera

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Nica and Monk

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Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter

Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter

Born in 1913, the former Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild spent her early life in a manner that passed for normal among the girls of her family – brought up in grand English country houses, educated by governesses, presented at court, barred by her gender from working in the family bank, then betrothed to a French nobleman – until a simmering attraction to jazz, already ignited before the war,…

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Nica's father was Charles Rothschild. Like his zoologist father, Walter, who turned the grounds of Tring into an extraordinary wildlife park with kangaroos, giant tortoises, emus, rheas and cassowaries, and who drove a carriage pulled by zebras, Charles had a passion for natural history. He was a keen amateur entomologist and named his youngest daughter Pannonica for a species of moth. However, this was not an interest he was free to pursue. Instead, every day, he was required to put on a suit and go to work in the family bank. This did not suit him one bit.

Charles also suffered from a mood disorder that may or may not have been schizophrenia. At times, he would not speak for days. On other occasions, he was manic, unable to sleep or stop talking. As he grew older, the gaps between these episodes grew even shorter. Finally, in 1923, he went into a bathroom, locked the door and slit his throat with a knife. Hannah believes that Charles's suicide lies at the heart of Nica's unlikely bond with Monk, who suffered from a similar illness, with similarly debilitating symptoms.

"Her father's death was incredibly violent, but afterwards it was never mentioned: suicide was still illegal. When she met Thelonious, there must have been huge resonances. He behaved in a very similar way to Charles, and Charles had been made to live a certain kind of life, going to the office every day, when what he wanted to be doing was collecting butterflies. Her passionate attempts to dignify Thelonious's life, to protect him, to say it's alright to spend the day sleeping if that's what you want or need to do...I'm sure this was her way of addressing an earlier injustice. In return, he gave her an incredible sense of purpose and belonging. If you think of her as a woman who'd been evicted from a close family, that's quite a frightening thing. But Thelonious and a whole group of musicians said to her: come and be part of this. We'll hang with you." Monk wasn't the only one who wrote a song for Pannonica. So did Art Blakey, Sonny Clark, Kenny Drew and at least a dozen others.

But life in New York had a dark side, too. In 1955, Nica was evicted from her suite at the Stanhope when Charlie Parker, having turned up at her door one night with nowhere else to go, choked and died there. In 1958, Nica decided to drive the impoverished Monk to a gig in Maryland. In a town called New Castle, Delaware, she stopped the car outside a motel so he could use the bathroom. As she waited, the police approached; in this part of America, the sight of a white woman and black man together was unusual enough to attract attention. There followed an altercation. Monk was beaten up. The police searched the car. When they found marijuana, Nica knew exactly what to do. Monk was too fragile to go to prison. She told them that the dope was hers.

The consequences of this moment of bravery were potentially dire. Nica faced a prison sentence of up to 10 years, followed by immediate deportation. Her life with Monk would be over, but the prospect of a return to England was just as painful. How would her family react? Would her husband ever let her see her children again? "It must have been terrifying," says Hannah. "I finally found out how terrifying in a letter she wrote to her friend Mary Lou Williams the night before her trial in January 1962. She is in Delaware. She writes that she is going to go into a church and light a candle. She writes, 'This is the day upon which my entire future may well depend.' She says she can't talk to Thelonious or Nellie about it because they have their own worries. She was so completely alone. I felt quite distressed on her behalf. Where is everyone? I thought." In the end, though, there came a miracle: the case was dismissed on a technicality, her lawyer arguing that the troopers had searched her car without her permission.

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The Baroness of Jazz

By Barry Singer

Oct. 17, 2008

IF the mysterious Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter is at all remembered today, it is for her proximity to the deaths of two legendary jazz musicians. In 1955 Charlie Parker died on a sofa in her Fifth Avenue home; 27 years later Thelonious Monk died after secluding himself for years in her New Jersey house.

Both deaths made the baroness an immediate target of tabloid headlines and a long-term subject for scurrilous gossip. Almost no one, though, beyond the insular jazz world, could possibly know her whole story: how, until her death in 1988, she championed jazz as both a friend and a generous, if rather unlikely, benefactor.

A Rothschild heiress, she offered her home to countless jazzmen as a place to work and even live, while quietly paying their bills when they couldn’t find work. She chauffeured them to gigs around New York, toured with them as a kind of racial chaperon, and was even known to confront anyone she felt was taking advantage of her friends because they were black.

“I always likened her to the great royal patrons of Mozart or Wagner’s day,” the saxophonist Sonny Rollins said in a telephone interview. “Yet she never put the spotlight on herself. I try not to talk publicly about people I knew in jazz. But I have to say something about the baroness. She really loved our music.”

The baroness first materialized in New York jazz clubs in the early 1950s like some film noir siren, right down to the raven hair and long cigarette holder. She seduced the music’s greatest figures with her friendship, the revolutionists of the bebop era: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and many others. Her illustrious family has long refused to discuss her. But now a new book, “Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats” (Abrams Image), offers a window into her personal life, providing details even her jazz intimates were probably unaware of.

The book is primarily a collection of candid photographs of the musicians taken by the baroness, and a compilation of their varied responses to a favorite question: “What are your three wishes?” On Oct. 30 an exhibition of her original notebooks collecting these snapshots and wish lists will open at the Gallery at Hermès in New York.

“Three Wishes�� arrives with the implicit sanction of the Rothschild family, including a six-page introduction by a granddaughter, Nadine de Koenigswarter. The book offers more concrete information about the baroness than has ever before appeared between covers. But the source of her extraordinarily deep bond with jazz musicians remains elusive.

She was born, her granddaughter writes, in London on Dec. 10, 1913. Her full name was Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild, according to her 1935 wedding announcement in The New York Times. She was the granddaughter of Nathan Mayer, the first Lord Rothschild, and the great-granddaughter of Mayer Amschel, the Rothschild patriarch who, from the Frankfurt ghetto, orchestrated his family’s rise. Her father was Nathaniel Charles Rothschild, a partner in the family bank, whose greater passion was entomology, a hobby at which he was both gifted and exceedingly accomplished. According to a great-niece, Hannah Rothschild, who is completing a documentary about her for the BBC, the baroness’s father was plagued by clinical depression that sometimes led the family to hospitalize him. He killed himself in 1923, at 46.

Nica Rothschild, as she was known, became an aviation enthusiast and an accomplished pilot. At 21 she met a kindred spirit at Le Touquet airfield in France. Baron Jules de Koenigswarter, 31, was a French mining engineer, banker and pilot. He was also a widower with a young son, and like Nica, he was Jewish. The baron quickly proposed after just three months; her response was flight to New York. They were married at City Hall in October 1935.

The couple took up residence in Abondant, a 17th-century chateau not far from Normandy. Their first-born child, Patrick de Koenigswarter, recalled in May in an interview published in The National, an Abu Dhabi newspaper, that when the Nazis invaded France, the baron, a lieutenant in the reserves, was called up. His father “left my mother a map, with instructions: If the Germans get to this point, take the children and escape any way you can to your family in England.” Shortly thereafter, his mother did, accompanied by a nanny and a maid, on what proved to be the last train out of Paris. The baron’s mother dismissed her son’s entreaties and instructions. She died at Auschwitz.

The baron joined de Gaulle’s Free French forces and was assigned to the Congo. At his instigation his wife next moved their two children to the United States, placing Patrick de Koenigswarter and his younger sister, Janka, with the Guggenheim family on Long Island. The baroness then somehow rejoined her husband in Africa with the Free French, serving in various capacities including ambulance driver and ending the war as a decorated lieutenant.

One little-known wartime detail lends a different sense to her later arrival in the New York jazz world. Her husband’s extended family, as well as her Hungarian-born mother’s, were nearly all killed in the Holocaust. The baroness’s adoption of New York’s predominantly black jazz family in the war’s aftermath thus seems less the act of a louche dilettante than of a survivor bent on resurrection and rebirth.

“I believe that she could no longer live in any ivory tower after what she saw in the war,” Hannah Rothschild said in a telephone interview. “Privilege offered no protection. The fate of her own mother-in-law proved that. She had experienced the very depths of prejudice herself firsthand.”

The baron entered the French diplomatic service after the war, settling his wife and children first in Norway and then in Mexico. “My father was a very controlling person,” Patrick de Koenigswarter said. “He was adamant about punctuality, while Nica was notorious for being late. She missed appointments, sometimes by days.” He continued, “It didn’t help that my father had no particular interest in the subjects that fascinated her: art and music.”

The baroness always credited her brother, Victor, a jazz fan and amateur pianist who studied with Art Tatum and Teddy Wilson, with introducing her to jazz. Shortly before her death, though, she revealed in a rare interview for the Monk documentary "Straight, No Chaser" the moment when her interest in jazz music escalated into something more.

“I was in the throes of the diplomatic life in Mexico,” she remembered of the years 1949 to 1952, “and I had a friend who got hold of records for me. I used to go to his pad to hear them. I couldn’t have listened to them in my own house, with that atmosphere. I heard them and really got the message. I belonged where that music was. This was something I was supposed to be involved in in some way. It wasn’t long afterwards that I cut out.”

It is well known in jazz circles that the great project of the baroness’s life was the torturously unstable Monk, whom she served as a surrogate wife right alongside Monk’s equally devoted actual wife, Nellie. The baroness paid Monk’s bills, dragged him to an endless array of doctors, put him and his family up in her own home and, when necessary, helped Nellie institutionalize him. In 1958 Monk and the baroness were stopped by the police in Delaware. When a small amount of marijuana was discovered, she took the rap for her friend and even served a few nights in jail.

People have always asked why. What drew her to him so intensely? Was it sex, drugs or groupie-esque infatuation? Clearly her steadfast devotion to Monk’s music propelled their relationship, which both maintained was platonic. In light of her father’s history, though, it seems possible that the underlying bond was love and childhood loss. In Monk, she may have been drawn to the same anguished brilliance that had consumed her father, whom she could not save.

he introduction to “Three Wishes” still leaves unanswered many questions that pursued the baroness throughout her life. Did she abandon her children in her headlong embrace of the jazz life, or were they taken from her? Did she enable addiction in the musicians she loved? Did she buy them drugs? Did she use drugs herself?

These questions once loomed large in her mystique. As her back story deepens, however, their sense of enormity recedes. The baron divorced his wife in 1956 after the scandalous publicity surrounding Charlie Parker’s death in her home. Shaun de Koenigswarter, the couple’s youngest son, recently confirmed that the baron also got custody of the three younger children, Berit (born in 1946), Kari (1950) and himself (1948). “I am the only child who never lived with my mother after she settled in New York in 1953,” he said in an e-mail message, adding that his four siblings lived with her during different periods.

That the baroness in fact lost custody of her three youngest children as a consequence of her love of jazz further illuminates the maternal quality of her presence on the scene. Is it any wonder that she clung to her musicians like family?

“She realized that jazz needed any kind of help it could get,” Mr. Rollins said, “especially the musicians. She was monetarily helpful to a lot who were struggling. But more than that, she was with us. By being with the baroness, we could go places and feel like human beings. It certainly made us feel good. I don’t know how you could measure it. But it was a palpable thing. I think she was a heroic woman.”

It has taken the actual family she left behind a long time to arrive at a similar conclusion. “Not all members of our family were enthused about the life she chose to lead (especially our father!),” Shaun de Koenigswarter wrote. “But over the years, many of those who had initially disapproved — particularly in light of the many viciously biased and racist press reports about her — came to understand and appreciate what she was all about.”

The saxophonist Sonny Rollins, photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter.

Thelonious Monk was among the many jazz musicians befriended (and photographed) by Pannonica de Koenigswarter, right.

Thelonious Monk by Pannonica De Koenigswarter

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Kasus Bunuh Diri keluarga ROTHSCHILD

Walaupun bergelimang harta, banyak kisah tragis tentang kematian sejumlah anggota keluarga Rothschild. Ada seorang anggota keluarga Rothschild melakukan bunuh diri karena depresi pada 1996.

Kasus Bunuh Diri - Amschel Rothschild, bagian dari keluarga yang bergelimang harta ini bunuh diri di sebuah hotel di Paris akibat depresi. Depresi ini muncul akibat kematian ibunya, Teresa Rothschild, dikutip dari The Independent.kartugg

"Keluarganya menyadari kalau dia (Amschel) memiliki kecenderungan depresi. Kami tidak tahu pasti alasannya," kata Anita, istri Amschel.

Amschel Rothschild lulus dari City University of London pada 1976, dikutip New York Times. Sebelum masuk ke bisnis keluarga, Amschel sempat bekerja di bidang media. Ia pernah menjadi manajer di majalah bernama New Review.polagacor

Anggota keluarga Rothschild lain yang memutuskan untuk bunuh diri ialah Charles Rothschild. Charles disebut memiliki hasrat dalam bidang sejarah alam.

Ia menjadi ahli entomologi amatir dan kesukaannya terhadap alam terlihat kala ia menamai putri bungsunya Pannonica, yang terinspirasi dari spesies ngengat, dikutip dari The Guardian.

Tak hanya itu, Charles diduga mengidap skizofrenia. Pada suatu waktu, Charles bisa tak berbicara selama berhari-hari. Di lain waktu, ia bersikap layaknya mania, tak bisa tidur dan tak berhenti bicara.slotgacor

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Les substances interdites ont provoqué des scandales et des perturbations dans les concerts de Parker

Charlie a développé une réputation de musicien peu fiable.  Pour une dose de « médicament », Parker jouait dans la rue pour demander l'aumône ou mettait son saxophone en gage dans un prêteur sur gages.

En 1948, Charlie enregistre son mariage avec Doris Green, qui, après la mort du saxophoniste, devient la veuve officielle de Parker.  Cependant, la véritable épouse du musicien au cours des 5 dernières années de la vie de l’homme était Beverly Dorothy Berg, connue sous le pseudonyme de Chan.

Charlie a rencontré une jolie jeune fille juive de 18 ans qui travaillait comme danseuse dans une boîte de nuit en 1943, mais le gars et la fille sont restés longtemps amis.  La belle a réussi à donner naissance à une fille, Kim, d'un autre musicien de jazz et était mariée à un autre jazzman nommé Richardson avant de se réunir avec Parker.

Chan a donné naissance aux deux enfants de Charlie, un fils, Baird, et une fille, Pri.  La mort du bébé au début de 1954, à l'âge de trois ans, fut un coup dur pour Parker et le renvoya à la dépendance à l'héroïne dont il s'était débarrassé.  Charlie a survécu à deux tentatives de suicide.

Chan décrit sa vie personnelle dans le livre « My Life in E Flat », qui a servi de base au biopic de Clint Eastwood « Bird ».  Le rôle de Parker dans le film biographique a été joué par Forest Whitaker.

La vie du jazzman s'achève le 12 mars 1955 à l'hôtel Stanhope dans des chambres louées par la baronne Pannonica de Koenigswarter.  La plus jeune fille du banquier et entomologiste Charles Rothschild a fréquenté Parker.

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Nica: "The Jazz Baroness”

Baroness Kathleen Annie Pannonica de Koenigswarter, often referred to as Nica or “the Jazz Baroness,” was a prominent figure in the jazz scene and an influential patron of jazz musicians during the mid-20th century. Born on December 10, 1913, in London, England, Nica was a member of the Rothschild banking family. Nica developed a deep passion for jazz music, particularly bebop, and became a…

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Pannonica de Koenigswarter (1913 – 1988)

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Baronowa jazzu

Czy imię ma rzeczywiście wpływ na nasze losy? Pannonica Rothschild pewnie by ochoczo przytaknęła, bo podobnie jak  Eublemma pannonica, pewien gatunek ćmy, była stworzeniem wyjątkowym – i nocnym.  (more…)

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1955 (and then some)

1955 (and then some)

In 1955 Charlie Parker died in the suite of a Rothschild, Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, at a hotel in New York City. He was watching TV. The Dorsey Brothers’ Stage Show was reportedly on. Although the brothers, Jimmy and Tommy, had their biggest period in the first half of the 1930s, TV needed content in its nascent period, so musical variety was big then. Parker was a fan of Jimmy’s…

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The Jazz Baroness (2009) | Documentary by Hannah Rothschild 

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Pannonica: Tribute To The Jazz Baroness

Pannonica: Tribute To The Jazz Baroness

Price: (as of – Details) A single moment can change a life forever. That happened to the Jewish baroness and heiress Pannonica (Nica) de Koenigswarter (1913-1988), née Rothschild. On hearing Thelonious Monk’s ‘Round Midnight’ on a trip to New York at the beginning of the 1950s, she was so totally captivated by the music, she turned her back on her native Europe and on all the glamour of her…

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Historia de Pannonica.Thelonious Monk

La baronesa del Jazz, Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild, "amiga, mascota y paladín" de Monk.

Nica fue mecenas de los músicos del bebop, llamados boppers, y ayudó a Monk y a su familia por lo que el inigualable pianista le estuvo muy agradecido.

La vida de esta mujer fue apasionante, de película.Criada con todos los lujos imaginables, tras el suicidio de su padre se casa con el barón Jules von Koenigswarter. Un diplomático del que acabaría cansándose para marcharse a New York y vivir el Jazz desde dentro.

Mujer amante de coches, avionetas, de la marihuana,de la noche... y cómo no ¡del jazz!

Se trasladó a New York donde vivió el Jazz y la noche con intensidad.

En 1955 su "escandalosa" vida alcanzaba el cénit cuando Charlie Parker, Bird, moría en la suite de la baronesa del Jazz del hotel Stanhope.

En el año 63 en directo desde Tokyo el cuarteto de Monk con Butch Warren, Frankie Dunlop y Charlie Rouse tocan su tema Pannonica.

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Pannonica de Koenigswarter, a Rothschild heiress, offered her home to countless jazzmen as a place to work and even live, while quietly paying their bills when they couldn't find work. She chauffeured them to gigs around New York, toured with them as a kind of racial chaperone, and was even known to confront anyone she felt was taking advantage of her friends because they were black.

"I always likened her to the great royal patrons of Mozart or Wagner's day," the saxophonist Sonny Rollins said. "Yet she never put the spotlight on herself. I try not to talk publicly about people I knew in jazz. But I have to say something about the baroness. She really loved our music."

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In the name of the true and living God, the beneficent, the merciful Thank you for bringing me up the rough side of the mountain like Ertuğrul Every knee bowed and every tongue confessed and paid homage To the monk who visited Rothschilds like Thelonious did Pannonica It's Jay Elec-entendre-nica comin' through your monitor Back from the great beyond like the Son of Man or the Son of Donda? I never rolled the GSXR or the R6 or the Honda  But I flew my Ducati through North America like Wakanda Earthquakes will strike this nation for what Bush did to Rwanda What the Clintons did to Haiti and Downing Street did to Ghana

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You know, to me, it kinda feels like Me, my mother, my brothers, and my kids Have all been incarcerated through this journey And we haven't even been to jail We have been looked at and treated as criminals For being a part of this family My father's truth and the reality that he raised me in Is that he wanted to make a change in this community 'Cause the conditions in this capitalist society is what made him And it is what made the children of today