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Performance

VenueThe Cockpit
TownInner London
CountyGreater London
From19th November 2018
To19th November 2018
When19:30
The Cockpit (V182)
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  • Date of change: 10 Jan 18 - T1227996571

North of the Sunset - Thelonious Monk and the Jazz Baroness

North of the Sunset

Work:: North of the Sunset (S0327423222)

Born into poverty in rural America and brought up in a cramped New York apartment, Thelonious Monk was a unique creative mind now regarded as one of the world's most influential jazz musicians - but he was beset by fluctuating mental and physical health, and fought an intolerant America that would take little notice of him until it was almost too late. Brought up in luxury in the English countryside, a member of the Rothschild banking dynasty by birth and a baroness by marriage, Pannonica "Nica" de Koenigswarter was an aristocrat of significant privilege. Yet after a gig in Paris in 1952, the two established a connection that was as unlikely as it was absolute. North of the Sunset charts an impossible relationship in a volatile age, and celebrates the life and music of one of the all-time jazz legends.

Production:: Thelonious Monk and the Jazz Baroness (T1227996571)

An exclusive opportunity to experience an exciting new piece, still in development, that explores the life of one of jazz's most singular geniuses through the eyes of his most intimate companion, the English heiress Nica de Koenigswarter. A staged reading of the play is interwoven with the iconoclastic sounds of Monk's repertoire performed live on-stage.
Author David Walter Hall
Producer Jonny Williams
Producer Debbie Hicks
Producer Ed Bugge
Producer Nik Roessner
Director Alexander Lass
Music Thelonious Monk
Group/Band Martin Speake and Band
Performer Trevor Michael Georges
Performer Ginny Holder
Performer Imogen Stubbs

Listing:: L0205144510




Thelonious Monk and the Jazz Baroness

An exclusive opportunity to experience an exciting new piece, still in development, that explores the life of one of jazz's most singular geniuses through the eyes of his most intimate companion, the English heiress Nica de Koenigswarter. A staged reading of the play is interwoven with the iconoclastic sounds of Monk's repertoire performed live on-stage.

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