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. 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, an homage to longtime patroness and friend Pannonica de Koenigswarter, who had served in the resistance, and whose likeness also appears on the cover.

Music

"Green Chimneys" is named after the school attended by Monk's daughter. For "In Walked Bud", Jon Hendricks added lyrics.

Critical reception

Track listing

All songs composed by Thelonious Monk unless otherwise noted.

Original LP

Side One Side Two

CD re-issue

Special Edition

Personnel

Musicians

Production