Theodorus Priest

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 as visiting royalty King Babar comes to a Greenwich Village nightclub to see him and his quartet.

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 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. The pianist in the group is Caucasian and Monk was African American.