Thelonius Monk - Underground

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1. Thelonious
2. Ugly Beauty
3. Raise Four
4. Boo Boo's Birthday (Take 11)
5. Easy Street
6. Green Chimneys
7. In Walked Bud 6:50
8. Ugly Beauty (Take 4)
9. Boo Boo's Birthday (Take 2)
10. Thelonious (Take 3)

Many jazz critics would have ranked Underground among Thelonious Monk's least significant albums. Now they should consider placing it in his top tier. Released in 1968, Underground is one of the last recordings Monk made before slipping into the decadelong hibernation that preceded his death in 1982 at the age of 64. The album was never taken very seriously, in part, I suspect, because of its cover—Monk sitting at an old piano in a dingy attic, toting a machine gun, surrounded by grenades, ammo, and other artifacts of the French underground (including a Nazi prisoner tied to a chair in the background). A loopy send-up of Monk's fabled eccentricities ("the mad monk," "the high priest of be-bop"), the cover incited so much attention that the music went largely ignored.