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Films

Monk, Pannonica and the Jazzmen

Director(s):	Jacques Goldstein
Producer(s):	a_BAHN CRFT (FR), ARTE
Script:	Jacques Goldstein
Year:	2021
Form:	DOCUMENTARY - Feature film
Genre:	Documentary
Original version:	English, French
Running time:	52'

Synopsis

Based on the discovery of a notebook of forgotten photos and notes, the film tells the story of the meeting, out of the narrow standards of 1950s America, between the white aristocrat Pannonica de Koenigswarter, author of this notebook, and the brilliant black pianist Thelonious Monk. An encounter placed under the sign of the fight of black musicians for the recognition of their art.

The photos and secret wishes of the musicians gathered in this elegant leather notebook by the "Baroness of Jazz" express the multiple difficulties that these uncompromising musicians had to face. In the greatest destitution for most of them, they have invented a now universal musical form, Jazz.

Casting

Matthew Shipp, Wadada Leo Smith, Amina Claudine Myers, William Parker, Laurent de Wilde

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