About the Author

Nica de Koenigswarter, daughter of Charles and Rozsika Rothschild, was married to the Baron Jules de Koenigswarter, a renowned freedom fighter in the French resistance before she moved to New York City, where she emerged as a major patron on the Jazz scene. Nadine de Koenigswarter, Nica's grand-niece, is a multi-media visual artist living in Paris and West Africa. Gary Giddins is an award-winning jazz critic and author. In 1998, Giddins's Visions of Jazz received the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism He presently writes columns about music for Jazz Times and about film for the New York Sun.