Monk & Pannonica: An American Story

Monk & Pannonica: An American Story

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2022-04-24

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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Monk & Pannonica: An American Story

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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.

Released

2022-04-24

Runtime

55

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Genres

Documentary

History

TV Movie

Language

English

Production

CFRT

a_BAHN

Histoire TV

ARTE GEIE

RSI

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    Thelonious Monk

    Thelonious Monk
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    Pannonica de Koenigswarter

    Pannonica de Koenigswarter
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    Archie Shepp

    Archie Shepp
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    Matthew Shipp

    Matthew Shipp