Underground

The final studio album from Thelonious Monk's long-running and celebrated quartet. Famous for its iconic, Grammy-winning cover art depicting Monk as a French Resistance fighter, the album features several new compositions. The track 'Ugly Beauty' is historically significant as the only waltz Monk ever officially recorded, applying his signature angular harmonies and rhythmic displacements to the 3/4 time signature to create a piece that is, true to its name, both jarring and strangely beautiful.