Underground (Thelonious Monk album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Underground

| type = Studio

| artist = Thelonious Monk

| cover = Thelonious Monk-Underground (album cover).jpg

| alt =

| released = May 1968{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rAoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=thelonious+monk+underground&pg=RA1-PA73|title=Billboard|date=May 25, 1968}}

| recorded = December 14 and 21, 1967; February 14, and December 14 1968

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = 37:23 (1:11:04 on Special Edition)

| label = Columbia

| producer = Teo Macero

| prev_title = Straight, No Chaser

| prev_year = 1967

| next_title = Monk's Blues

| next_year = 1968

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r144178|first=Lindsay|last=Planer}}

| rev3 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev3Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

|url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen

|url-access=registration

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen/page/145 145]

}}

|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev2score = {{Rating|4|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=1024}}

}}

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.