Jazz Baroness, a 2009 documentary film, will be featured Sunday, August 1, in the summer Best of the Boston Jewish Film Festival series at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven.

Most jazz fans have heard of Baroness Pannonica Rothschild de Koenigswater, whether they realize it or not. Known familiarly as Nica, she was immortalized in compositions by such jazz masters as Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Drew and Jon Hendricks.

Here, in a film made for the BBC and directed by Hannah Rothschild, Nica’s great-grandniece, is the story of how this wealthy granddaughter of Britain’s first Jewish M.P. left her husband and five children after World War II to become the unlikely muse of Thelonius Monk. Classic jazz tunes provide the score for this lyrical, haunting portrait of an incredible life.

The film begins at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $10.