The Baroness

In the early 1950s, beautiful, spirited Pannonica (known as Nica), a Rothschild by birth and a Baroness by marriage, heard a piece by the jazz legend Thelonious Monk.

The music overtook her like a magic spell, and she abandoned her marriage to go and find him.

Nica was shunned by New York society but accepted by the musicians.

Her notoriety was sealed when drug-addicted saxophonist Charlie Parker died in her apartment.

But her real love was reserved for Monk, whom she cared for until his death in 1982.