Pannonica
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Pannonica is a song composed by Thelonious Monk, named after Pannonica de Koenigswarter who was named after a moth that her father had once tried to catch.
-Info from the album Straight, No Chaser: Thelonious Monk, track 2
n 1954, Thelonious Monk paid his first visit to Europe, performing and recording in Paris. It was here that he first met Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, "Nica", member of the English branch of the Rothschild family and patroness of several New York City jazz musicians. She would be a close friend for the rest of his life.
The name "Pannonica" identifies several plants of the Pannonian plain that support butterflies and moths, a great interest of her father's.
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