De Koenigswarter (1913-1988), known as the ""Jazz Baroness,"" was a fixture on the East Coast jazz scene of the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Born into the wealthy Rothschild family and married to a French ...

A member of the English branch of the Rothschild family, Pannonica de Koenigswarter arrived in New York in the early 1950s, took a suite at the Stanhope Hotel, bought a silver Rolls-Royce, and quickly ...

Thelonious Monk and the Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter -- who he named the tune "Pannonica" after. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Abrams Image/Harry N. Abrams Recently, I was thumbing through Three Wishes, ...

I recently bought a book compiled and photographed by the one and only jazz patroness, Baroness Pannonica (often called Nica) de Koenigswarter, a member of the old-world aristocratic and fabulously ...

There has been only a tiny handful of jazz figures so respected by the world at large that they were welcomed as genuine aristocrats. It's been even rarer still for members of Europe's aristocracy to ...

Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter still looms in the margins of jazz history. Until now, her contributions during the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s were known mostly to insiders, aficionados, historians, and ...

If Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter hadn't moved to New York in 1951, we'd probably have far fewer recordings by Thelonious Monk. Nica, as she was known, was a member of the wealthy Rothschild ...

Thelonious Monk III, son of jazz legend Thelonious Monk, discusses the encouragement and financial support Rothschild family heiress Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter rendered to Monk and other jazz ...

Jazz great Thelonius Monk had a unique sound that won him millions of fans — and it certainly stole the heart of the Baroness Nica de... Love At First Listen: 'The Jazz Baroness' In June of 1954, an ...

Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter (Nica for short) was born and raised a Rothschild in a 17th-century Buckinghamshire mansion, where houseguests included King Edward VII, and zebras and emus roamed ...

Pannonica (Nica for short) Rothschild was born 1913 and grew up surrounded by immense wealth at Tring Park, Hertfordshire. In 1934, she was presented at court and a year later married the French ...