Monk & Pannonica: An American Story

Overview

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