Underground is an album by Thelonious Monk. It features Monk on piano, Larry Gales on bass, Charlie Rouse on tenor sax, and Ben Riley on drums. This is the last Monk album featuring the Thelonious Monk Quartet. Its cover image depicts Monk as a French Resistance fighter in the Second World War. It won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover. Underground is an album by Thelonious Monk. It features Monk on piano, Larry Gales on bass, Charlie Rouse on tenor sax, and Ben Riley on drums. This is the last Monk album featuring the Thelonious Monk Quartet. Its cover image depicts Monk as a French Resistance fighter in the Second World War. It won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover. false 2024-02-27 21:45:51 Underground 7.3 1968 1968-01-01 1968-01-01 40 Jazz 118404 2154672 cb9ffc3f-70ad-4094-b4e2-06509239ff77 8e8c7417-c905-46b1-b42a-5260b4274ed4 5b83a45b-3bcd-35e2-a462-fc98260df180 /media/data/media5/Music/Thelonious Monk/Underground (1968)/folder.jpg Thelonious Monk AlbumArtist /config/metadata/People/T/Thelonious Monk/folder.jpg Thelonious Monk Artist /config/metadata/People/T/Thelonious Monk/folder.jpg Thelonious Monk Thelonious Monk 1 Thelonious 03:17 2 Ugly Beauty 07:23 3 Raise Four 04:37 4 Boo Boo’s Birthday 05:56 5 Easy Street 05:56 6 Green Chimneys 09:01 7 In Walked Bud 04:16 Thelonious Sphere Monk ( October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser", "Ruby, My Dear", "In Walked Bud", and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second-most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington. Monk's compositions and improvisations feature dissonances and angular melodic twists, often using flat ninths, flat fifths, unexpected chromatic notes together, low bass notes and stride, and fast whole tone runs, combining a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of switched key releases, silences, and hesitations. Monk's distinct look included suits, hats, and sunglasses. He also had an idiosyncratic habit during performances: while other musicians continued playing, Monk would stop, stand up, and dance for a few moments before returning to the piano. Monk is one of five jazz musicians to have been featured on the cover of Time (the others being Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, and Wynton Marsalis).