‘Ironic.’ In a tangential reference, perhaps, a character in the old UK comedy series ‘HI De Hi,’ remarks to his apprentice comic, ‘Never explain your jokes, Spike.’ (Ted Bovis, whom God preserve). But…
Charlie Parker turned up at the Jazz Baroness’s hotel room in New York looking very ill and she put him up for a couple of weeks and got him medical attention until he died. What a lot of ‘jazz’ histories that refer to Bird’s tragic demise don’t mention is the ensuing scandal. Black musician found dead in white aristocrat’s room. Etc. She was thrown out of the hotel for this perceived outrage - and she was not without clout, being a member of the Rothschild family. Her friendship with Thelonious Monk over many years (apparently with the sanction of Nelly Monk, his wife) culminated when he died at her house in New Jersey at the end of his musical career after two years or so of refuge and silence. Parker 1955, Monk, 1982, his fellow genius comrade in arms in the 1940s modern jazz revolution. Both ending their lives in the care of Nica de Koenigswarter.

If your knights are all cowards, don’t tell Miss Cathcart…