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Nica's Dream - Pannonica "Nica" de Koenigswarte

 
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 7:04 pm    Post subject: Nica's Dream - Pannonica "Nica" de Koenigswarte Reply with quote

Wall Street Journal Article: The Ballad of a Jazz Royal
(Truth is far more strange than fiction.)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304760604576428252531697570.html?mod=WSJ_NY_LEFTThirdStories


Pannonica "Nica" de Koenigswarter (1913-1988), the British-born heir to the Rothschild international financial empire.

She is the subject of "Nica's Dream" (Horace Silver) and platonic girlfriend of Thelonious Monk. Charlie Parker died in her hotel room on Fifth Avenue.
She is also the subject of Monk's 'Pannonica.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8PHk1aA8Uo


Wes Montgomery - 'Nica's Dream'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ0ybQnhsvc


wiki: Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonica_de_Koenigswarter

In WWII she served in North Africa for the French Resistance as an ambulance driver.

-Kb
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