Monk Pannonica An American Story

Name: Monk Pannonica An American Story
Genre: History, Documentary, TV Movie
Duration: 55 min
Rating: 80
Cast: Thelonious Monk, Pannonica de Koenigswarter, Archie Shepp, Matthew Shipp

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StarringThelonious MonkPannonica de KoenigswarterArchie Shepp

DirectorJacques Goldstein

WriterJacques Goldstein

NR 55 minHistory, Documentary, TV Movie

Plot

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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