Underground (Thelonious Monk album)

Underground
Underground
Studio album by Thelonious Monk
Released	May 1968
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
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Professional ratings
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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

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

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

Track listing

All songs composed by Thelonious Monk unless otherwise noted.

Original LP

Side One

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

Side Two

"Easy Street" (A.R. Jones) - 5:52
"Green Chimneys" - 9:00 recorded December 14, 1968^[6]
"In Walked Bud" - 4:17

CD re-issue

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

Special Edition

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

Personnel

Musicians

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

Production

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

References

^ "Billboard". May 25, 1968.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Planer, Lindsay. Underground at AllMusic
^ Down Beat: August 8, 1968 vol. 35, no. 16. Review by Dan Morgenstern.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 145. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1024. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ ^a ^b "Underground Theloxious Monk CD Cover" (PDF). us.archive.org.

[1] "Billboard". May 25, 1968.

[AM-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.

[RSJRG-4] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 145. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[Penguin-5] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1024. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[ia803106.us.archive.org-6] "Underground Theloxious Monk CD Cover" (PDF). us.archive.org.

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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"
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