A wealthy, fast-driving, jazz-loving British-born baroness from Weehawken was highlighted in The Wall Street Journal for her role and acceptance in the jazz community.
Pannonica de Koenigswarter, of the incredibly wealthy Rothschild family, was close with jazz greats like Theolonius Monk, WSJ reports.
“The baroness is generally referred to as a ‘patron of the arts,’ but that only begins to describe what she did. In an age when jazz was not yet recognized as a legitimate art… (View original article)