Do you think Charlie Parker would quote Goethe?

[in_the_blue]

(I really need to finish my Bebop dub transcription project.)

Last night I watched an excellent documentary called The Jazz Baroness. It details the relationship between Pannonica de Koenigswarter ("Nica") and Thelonious Monk (and to a lesser degree, Charlie Parker), a story I didn't really know much about until yesterday. The documentary was made for the BBC by Hannah Rothschild, Nica's grand-niece, and boy was it lovingly done. It's only 83 minutes long and it's airing on HBO2 (and on demand) this month. I'm so glad I saw it.

It doesn't really matter whether or not you're a jazz fan; it was mostly a hell of a look at American society in the 1950s with Monk's story transposed against Nica's. Monk's music is an ever-present backdrop to the documentary which is chock full of interviews wtih all sorts of people, and... it was pretty beautiful.

Comments

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

yeah, yeah, dub transcriptions. because i'm trying to make do with the official translated-dialogue in the transcripts i found (i think that was from a link you once found for me) and they keep throwing me off-guard. still though? thank you thank you thank you for luring me into this because now i can finally finally write fics for something other than hp. wheeee.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha.

Everyone wants to write the Bebop fics. Have you seen the whole series yet?