Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter still looms in the margins of jazz
history. Until now, her contributions during the Fifties, Sixties, and
Seventies were known mostly to insiders, aficionados, historians, and
journalists eager to sensationalize her association with the death of
Charlie Parker, who famously died in her living room in 1955.Though
de Koenigswarter's spirit flickers on in the 20-plus compositions
written in her honor, it would be impossible to overstate the extent to
which she s
