I celebrate the Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter who loved jazz and jazz musicians. Here she is with Thelonious Monk. She supported and championed many jazz artists including Monk and Charlie Parker.
Nica, as the musicians knew her, was born in London in 1913, the youngest of the four children of the banker and entomologist Charles Rothschild. He named her, she said, after a rare butterfly that he had identified on a visit to the family estate of his Hungarian wife.
In The Jazz Baroness, a new 75-minute documentary made by Nica’s great-niece Hannah Rothschild, we learn that the Pannonica is in fact a moth – “with yellow wings that look as if they’ve been dipped in Chateau Lafite,” Rothschild notes.
This information was culled from this article in The Guardian.
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