noch ein schneller fund. kennt jemand eigentlich das buch von kastin über pannonica?:
In the spring of 1955, when Charlie Parker died in her lavishly appointed apartment, Nica’s photo was splashed across the pages of local newspapers, accompanied by lurid, racially tinged stories that cast her as an evil seductress in exotic furs and designer frocks. “Blinded and bedazzled by this luscious, slinky, black-haired, jet-eyed Circe of high society, the Yardbird was a fallen sparrow,” was how the tawdry gossip rag Expose described her role in Parker’s death. This toxic blend of race and sex would continue to stain Nica’s reputation for most of her life.
But the memoirs of an array of jazz greats (two dozen of whom wrote compositions in her honor), and interviews with musicians, journalists and jazz-world insiders who she befriended over three-plus decades, tell a very different story. For example, in 2008, when I sat down with the great singer and songwriter Jon Hendricks, who wrote a heartfelt tribute to her, titled “Little Butterfly” (set to the melody of Thelonious Monk’s “Pannonica”), he described Nica as a heroic figure who was not only an unstinting benefactor to the jazz community, but someone who was able to see past the era’s pervasive racial stereotypes. “To her, Thelonious and Bird were not just ‘hip jazz musicians,’” Hendricks told me, “they were great cultural artists. And she treated them that way.” Monk was even more succinct. In a conversation with a fellow musician late in his life, he simply called Nica “the best friend I ever had.”
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