Mysterious Thelonious (Live Oak Music Makers)

This book makes music even for readers who don't know who jazz great Thelonious Monk was. The words slither all over the page. Each spread contains Monk and his piano in various guises on a background that comes as close to synesthesia as possible. Raschka matches the 12 musical notes of the chromatic scale to the 12 values of the color wheel and makes harmonies of watercolor washes, its message of "no wrong notes" is loud and clear.