Monk & Pannonica: An American Story

55m
DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie
8

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.

Cast

Thelonious Monk
Self - Jazz Musician (archive footage)
Pannonica de Koenigswarter
Self - Jazz Patron (archive footage)
Archie Shepp
Self
Matthew Shipp
Self

Crew

Jacques Goldstein
Director, Writer
Emmanuelle Dugne
Producer
François Le Gall
Producer
Marion Guth
Producer

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