Nica De Koenigswarter: Self
Quotes
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Thelonious Monk : [scribbles something on a piece of paper] Can you read that?
Nica De Koenigswarter : A beautiful message.
Thelonious Monk : If somebody can decipher that for you, you know, and say what it means, get what it means, it'll upset you. You'll flip, I mean flip for real!
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Nica De Koenigswarter : I was living in the Stanhope and, you know, like, all musicians used to come up there; but, after Bird died there, they threw me out... So, then, I went to the Bolivar and that's when I got my piano. Thelonious and I got together. That's where he wrote, "Brilliant Corners", "Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues." At night, we'd go out around the clubs. And then, all musicians would come back with us to the Bolivar and we'd have these fantastic jam sessions until 8 or 9 the next morning. So, of course, eventually, that caused trouble, and I was thrown out of there.
[laughs]
Nica De Koenigswarter : And then we decided I should get a house of my own.
