Underground (Thelonious Monk album)

1968 studio album by Thelonious Monk

Underground

Studio album by

Thelonious Monk

Released| May 1968[1]
Recorded| December 14 and 21, 1967; February 14, and December 14, 1968
Genre| Jazz
Length| 37:23 (1:11:04 on Special Edition)
Label| Columbia
Producer| Teo Macero
Thelonious Monk chronology
| Straight, No Chaser
(1967)  | Underground
(1968)  | Monk's Blues
(1968)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [2]
DownBeat| [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [5]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide| [4]

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]

## Music

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

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

## Track listing

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All songs composed by Thelonious Monk unless otherwise noted.

### Original LP

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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[6]
3. "In Walked Bud" - 4:17

### CD re-issue

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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

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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

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### Musicians

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* Thelonious Monk – piano
* Charlie Rouse – tenor saxophone
* Larry Gales – bass
* Ben Riley – drums
* Jon Hendricks – vocals on "In Walked Bud"

### Production

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

## References

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1. ^ "Billboard". May 25, 1968.
2. ^ a b c d e f Planer, Lindsay. Underground at AllMusic
3. ^ Down Beat: August 8, 1968 vol. 35, no. 16. Review by Dan Morgenstern.
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. ^ a b https://ia803106.us.archive.org/26/items/cd_underground_thelonious-monk_0/cd_underground_thelonious-monk_0.pdf

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Thelonious Monk

* Discography
* Compositions

As leader|

* Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1
* Wizard of the Vibes
* Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2
* Thelonious Monk Trio
* Monk
* Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins
* Piano Solo
* Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
* The Unique Thelonious Monk
* Brilliant Corners
* Thelonious Himself
* Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
* Monk's Music
* Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
* Mulligan Meets Monk
* Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
* The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings
* Thelonious in Action
* Misterioso
* The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall
* 5 by Monk by 5
* Thelonious Alone in San Francisco
* Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk
* Monk in France
* Thelonious Monk in Italy
* Monk's Dream
* Criss-Cross
* Monk in Tokyo
* Miles & Monk at Newport
* Big Band and Quartet in Concert
* It's Monk's Time
* Monk
* Solo Monk
* Live at the It Club
* Live at the Jazz Workshop
* Misterioso (Recorded on Tour)
* Straight, No Chaser
* Thelonious Monk Nonet Live in Paris 1967
* Underground
* Monk's Blues

With others|

* Midnight at Minton's
* Bird and Diz
* Bags' Groove
* Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
* Moving Out
* Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2
* Nica's Tempo
* In Orbit

Compositions|

* "In Walked Bud"
* "'Round Midnight"

Related articles|

* Blue Note Sessions
* Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
* Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
* Rewind & Play

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