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(New page: Parody of real jazzman Thelonius Monk in the children's picture book ''Babar Comes to America'' (1965) by Laurent de Brunhoff. He appears in a single panel as visiting royalty Babar visit...)
 
 
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Parody of real jazzman Thelonius Monk in the children's picture book ''Babar Comes to America'' (1965) by Laurent de Brunhoff. He appears in a single panel as visiting royalty Babar visits a New York nightclub to see him.  
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[[Image:Priest_Theodorus_Babar_Comes_to_America.jpg|right]]Parody of real jazzman [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk Thelonious Monk] in the children's picture book ''[https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/babar-comes-to-america-laurent-de-brunhoff/1103674355 Babar Comes to America]'' (1965) by Laurent de Brunhoff. He appears in a single panel with his quartet, in a Greenwich Village nightclub visited by jazz enthusiast King Babar.  
  
However, Priest is drawn looking like Dizzy Gillespie, with a trumpet and giant, puffed-out cheeks. Thelonius Monk was a pianist, not a horn player.
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It's not precisely clear which of the five jazz musicians in the illustration is Priest. However, the trumpet player is front and center, leading to the assumption that he should be Priest. However, the trumpet player looks way more like other real jazzman Dizzy Gillespie, with his giant, puffed-out cheeks. Thelonious Monk was a pianist, not a horn player. But the pianist in this group is Caucasian and Monk was African American. So... ?
  
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Latest revision as of 04:41, 19 October 2017

Priest Theodorus Babar Comes to America.jpg

Parody of real jazzman Thelonious Monk in the children's picture book Babar Comes to America (1965) by Laurent de Brunhoff. He appears in a single panel with his quartet, in a Greenwich Village nightclub visited by jazz enthusiast King Babar.

It's not precisely clear which of the five jazz musicians in the illustration is Priest. However, the trumpet player is front and center, leading to the assumption that he should be Priest. However, the trumpet player looks way more like other real jazzman Dizzy Gillespie, with his giant, puffed-out cheeks. Thelonious Monk was a pianist, not a horn player. But the pianist in this group is Caucasian and Monk was African American. So... ?