x dismiss this message
Did you know you can edit this page?
-
Sign Into Shelfari
-
Choose something to edit
-
Save your contributions
see page history
Description edit
The first biography of the Rothschild heiress who became a muse and patron to jazz masters Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk. Raised in fairy-tale splendor, Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild de Koenigswarter (known as "Nica") piloted her own plane across the English Channel, married a... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Nica: Add a description of this character.
- Baroness
- Jules
- Amram
- Nellie
- Victor
- Kerouac
- Miriam
- Charlie Parker
- Hendricks
- Harry Colomby
- Rothschild
- Powell
- Hentoff
- Charles Mingus
- Monk
- Coleman Hawkins
- Walter
- Blakey
- Robin Kelley
- Barry Harris
- Patrick
- Ricker
- Jackie
- Minton
- Mary Lou Williams
- Max Gordon
- Thelonious
- Duke Ellington
- Richardson
- Lester Young
- Gillespie
- Rozsika
- Miles Davis
- Janka
- Wilson
- Jacobs
- Cassavetes
- Morgenstern
- Ginsberg
- Cecil Taylor
- Charlie Rouse
- Pollack
Setting & Locations edit
- New York City
- Paris
- London
- America
- England
- Bentley
- Weehawken
- Harlem
- Europe
- France
- Birdland
- Atlantic
- Delaware
- Cambridge
- Columbia
- New Jersey
- Kansas City
- Tring Park
- Hollywood
- Washington
- Carnegie Hall
- Chicago
- Lower East Side
- United States
- West 63rd Street
- Bean
- North Africa
- Hudson River
- Upper East Side
- Central Park
- Manhattan
- Riverside
- California
Authors & Contributors edit
- David Kastin (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 781.65092
Subjects edit
We’re hiding the errata, movie connections, books that influenced this book, books influenced by this book, books that cite this book and books cited by this book sections. If you would like to add content to them, you must first make them visible.
