Monk & Pannonica: An American Story

Monk & Pannonica: An American Story

55 mins | Documentary, History, TV Movie | April 24, 2022

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.

Monk & Pannonica: An American Story

55 mins | Documentary, History, TV Movie | April 24, 2022

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.
Producers ARTE GEIE, RSI, CFRT, Histoire, a_BAHN
Original title Monk, Pannonica et les jazzmen
Directors Jacques Goldstein
Writers Jacques Goldstein

Cast

Thelonious Monk

as Self - Jazz Musician (archive footage)

Pannonica de Koenigswarter

as Self - Jazz Patron (archive footage)

Archie Shepp

as Self

Matthew Shipp

as Self