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Beautiful, romantic and spirited, Pannonica, known as Nica, named after her father’s favorite moth, was born in 1913 to extraordinary, eccentric privilege and a storied history. The Rothschild family had, in only five generations, risen from the ghetto in Frankfurt to stately homes in England. As a child, Nica took her daily walks, dressed in white, with her two sisters and governess around the parkland of the vast house at Tring, Hertfordshire, among kangaroos, giant tortoises, emus and zebras, all part of the exotic menagerie collected by her uncle Walter. As a debutante, she was taught to fly by a saxophonist and introduced to jazz by her brother Victor; she married Baron Jules de Koenigswarter, settled in a château in France and had five children. When World War II broke out, Nica and her five children narrowly escaped back to England, but soon after, she set out to find her husband who was fighting with the Free French Army in Africa, where she helped the war effort by being a decoder, a driver and organizing supplies and equipment. In the early 1950s Nica heard “’Round Midnight” by the jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk and, as if under a powerful spell, abandoned her marriage and moved to New York to find him. She devoted herself to helping Monk and other musicians: she bailed them out of jail, paid their bills, took them to the hospital, even drove them to their gigs, and her convertible Bentley could always be seen parked outside downtown clubs or up in Harlem. Charlie Parker would notoriously die in her apartment in the Stanhope Hotel. But it was Monk who was the love of her life and whom she cared for until his death in 1982. Hannah Rothschild has drawn on archival material and her own interviews in this quest to find out who her great-aunt really was and how she fit into a family that, although passionate about music and entomology, was reactionary in always favoring men over women. Part musical odyssey, part love story,  The Baroness is a fascinating portrait of a modern figure ahead of her time who dared to live as she wanted, finally, at the very center of New York’s jazz scene.

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If you are a jazz fan and enjoy the bop era, do not miss this. Even if you are not, this is more than a jazz story. It is Nica's story. And, it is more than that. It is the story of Hannah's search for her fascinating black sheep of a great aunt. I have a policy of not spending much time with stories of wealth or power, but when someone steps out like Nica did, it is well worth learning about. In the process I learned a bit about the humanity of members of a wealthy and powerful family. We can only hope that more such people step out and learn about the humanity of the rest of us. But i digress. This book is great fun to read - a detective story, a jazz story, and a family story. told by an excellent writer and documentary producer. I bought it in print to be sure I could see the pictures well. They are all black and white of course, and all interesting, but the 2 page spread of Nica at the wheel of her Bentley convertible out front of the Five Spot, with Monk standing at the passenger door is priceless.

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