Monk! Thelonious, Pannonica... a friendship, a revolution m

He is Thelonious Sphere Monk, an eccentric musical genius who reinvented jazz. She is Pannonica de Koenigswarter, a British baroness of the family Rothschild with a free and indomitable spirit. Their deep friendship was born in 1954 and would not end until Monk's death in 1982. Set against the backdrop of New York during the golden age of jazz, Monk! explores the unique alchemy between these two brilliant personalities separated by status social, skin color and culture but united by their immense love of music. “Throughout the pages blows this exhilarating freshness of jazz musicians who, despite their precarious, difficult life, communicate to us their profound freedom and draw us into the urgency and dance of life!” Nadine de Koenigswarter “Bravo to Youssef Daoudi for telling this story with such finesse.” Lawrence de Wilde Jazzman and author of the reference biography Monk, Folio. "This Monk is magnificent! by Youssef Daoudi. We see Monk, we hear Monk, we could almost say that we understand it!” Jacques Ponzio Pianist and author of the Monk ABC, Lenka Lente and Blue Monk, Actes Sud. Comic book author Youssef Daoudi has produced as a designer and screenwriter of around ten comics published by Casterman, Glénat and Fluide glacial. With Monk!, he signs his first graphic novel published simultaneously in the United States (First Second, New York) and in France.