Underground (Thelonious Monk album)
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| 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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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.