Monk & Pannonica: An American Story

The read

It runs a compact 55m.

Synopsis

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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Key crew

• Jacques GoldsteinWriter
• Jacques GoldsteinDirector

Cast

• Thelonious MonkSelf - Jazz Musician (archive footage)
• Pannonica de KoenigswarterSelf - Jazz Patron (archive footage)
• Archie SheppSelf
• Matthew ShippSelf

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