Underground
Studio album by
Thelonious Monk
ReleasedMay 1968[1]
RecordedDecember 14 and 21, 1967; February 14, 1968
GenreJazz
Length37:23 (1:11:04 on Special Edition)
LabelColumbia
ProducerTeo Macero
Thelonious Monk chronology
Straight, No Chaser
(1967)		 Underground
(1968)		 Monk's Blues
(1968)

Underground is the seventh studio album that Thelonious Monk recorded for Columbia Records. It features Monk on piano, Larry Gales on bass, Charlie Rouse on tenor sax, and Ben Riley on drums.[2] This is the last Monk album featuring the Thelonious Monk Quartet.[2] Its cover image depicts Monk as a French Resistance fighter in the Second World War, an homage to longtime patroness and friend Pannonica de Koenigswarter, who had served in the resistance, and whose likeness also appears on the cover.[2] It won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover.[3]

Music

"Green Chimneys" is named after the school attended by Monk's daughter.[2]

For "In Walked Bud", Jon Hendricks added lyrics.[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[5]


Track listing

All songs composed by Thelonious Monk unless otherwise noted.

Original LP

Side One

  1. "Thelonious" - 3:14
  2. "Ugly Beauty" - 7:20 recorded December 14, 1967[6]
  3. "Raise Four" - 4:36
  4. "Boo Boo's Birthday" - 5:56

Side Two

  1. "Easy Street" (A.R. Jones) - 5:52
  2. "Green Chimneys" - 9:00 recorded December 14, 1968[7]
  3. "In Walked Bud" - 4:17

CD re-issue

  1. "Thelonious" – 3:13
  2. "Ugly Beauty" – 3:17
  3. "Raise Four" – 5:47
  4. "Boo Boo's Birthday" – 5:56
  5. "Easy Street" (Alan Rankin Jones) – 5:53
  6. "Green Chimneys" – 9:00
  7. "In Walked Bud" (Jon Hendricks, Monk) – 4:17

Special Edition

  1. "Thelonious" – 3:16
  2. "Ugly Beauty" – 10:45
  3. "Raise Four" – 7:00
  4. "Boo Boo's Birthday (Take 11)" – 5:55
  5. "Easy Street" – 7:50
  6. "Green Chimneys" – 13:09
  7. "In Walked Bud" – 6:48
  8. "Ugly Beauty (Take 4)" – 7:37
  9. "Boo Boo's Birthday (Take 2)" – 5:34
  10. "Thelonious (Take 3)" – 3:10

Personnel

Musicians

Production

  • Teo Macero – production
  • Tim Geelan – engineering
  • Horn Grinner Studios – photography
  • John Berg, Richard Mantel – art direction

References

  1. ↑ "Billboard". May 25, 1968.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Planer, Lindsay. Underground at AllMusic
  3. ↑ "1968 Grammy Winners". grammy.com. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  4. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 145. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  5. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1024. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  6. ↑ https://ia803106.us.archive.org/26/items/cd_underground_thelonious-monk_0/cd_underground_thelonious-monk_0.pdf
  7. ↑ https://ia803106.us.archive.org/26/items/cd_underground_thelonious-monk_0/cd_underground_thelonious-monk_0.pdf
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