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The Jazz Baroness

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12/02/2008

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Jazz Baroness

Hannah Rothschild tells the story of her eccentric great aunt Pannonica Rothschild.

Film-maker Hannah Rothschild's story of her eccentric great-aunt Pannonica, New York's bebop jazz baroness. From February 2008.

Film maker Hannah Rothschild tells the extraordinary story of her eccentric great aunt Pannonica Rothschild, who settled in New York after World War II and became famous as the Baroness of the Bebop jazz revolution. Such greats as Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk were beneficiaries of her patronage.

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